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

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Thu, 16 October 2014 13:44 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard <mpg@polarssl.org>, Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>, Bodo Moeller <bmoeller@acm.org>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 09:44:37 -0400
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Subject: Re: [TLS] Working Group Last Call for draft-ietf-tls-downgrade-scsv-00
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> A widely-deployed client might use TLS 1.2 with FALLBACK_SCSV
> unconditionally.

A widely deployed client might also start injecting line noise into the TLS stream.

We can't control what buggy clients do.  That's not new.

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