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Re: [TLS] RFC 5878 - why?

Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> Wed, 18 September 2013 09:46 UTC

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Trevor Perrin <trevp@trevp.net> writes:

>Does anyone care?  Has anyone written independent, interoperating versions of
>these?

Since it's an Experimental, does it really matter much?  The Experimental
tagging should already serve as a fairly strong here-be-dragons.

Peter.

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