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Re: [TLS] publishing SSL 3.0 as historic

Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> Fri, 11 February 2011 21:45 UTC

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Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org> writes:

> Hello,
>  After some discussion with Sean Turner, I've decided to
> try re-shaping the old draft-ietf-tls-ssl-version3 draft to
> be publish it as a historic rfc. The draft I came up with is at:
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mavrogiannopoulos-ssl-version3-00
> 
> I've converted the original document to xml format so some
> formatting might not be exactly the same. Apart from that
> other changes to the original are:
> * stray references to documents [IP],[SSL-2] were defined.
> * stray reference to RC4 was replaced with RSADSI.
> * Appendix A.1.1 was renumbered as A.2 as it was not a subsection of
> A.1.
> * Section that discussed patents was removed (all patents discussed
> are expired).
> 
> Do you think this draft should be adopted by the WG and be published as
> historic?

I support this, but would suggest that there should be something
warning readers that SSLv3 has known security issues and so should not
be used by new implementations.

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