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Re: [TLS] Working Group Last Call for draft-ietf-tls-downgrade-scsv-00

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Fri, 26 September 2014 07:22 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Working Group Last Call for draft-ietf-tls-downgrade-scsv-00
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On 26 September 2014 08:08, Bodo Moeller <bmoeller@acm.org> wrote:
>
> The main thinking behind the draft, however, is that the server-side logic
> should be as simple as possible, because I want *every* server to do this.
> (What's more, I want every server to do it *correctly*.) The client-side
> logic, in contrast, can be a bit more complicated: if your client never does
> those fallback retries, you don't have to do anything.

I'm OK with that, but if this is the real reason for the MUST, then
it's not particularly clear.

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