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Re: [TLS] I-D Action: draft-ietf-tls-prohibiting-rc4-01.txt

Ralph Holz <holz@net.in.tum.de> Wed, 08 October 2014 21:27 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] I-D Action: draft-ietf-tls-prohibiting-rc4-01.txt
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Hi,

> 2. "TLS servers MUST NOT select an RC4 cipher suite" is too
> strict/constraining/hard to deploy/etc. If we removed this MUST NOT,
> this would not be a prohibiting-rc4 draft, but a best practice
> recommendation. We have TLS-BCP for recommendations. The idea of
> prohibiting-rc4 is to completely remove a weak cipher suite.

The BCP MUST NOTs RC4.

It also MUST NOTs the NULL cipher, but says clearly that some scenarios
require it, and these are not in scope.

Ralph

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