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Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tls-downgrade-scsv

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Fri, 24 January 2014 21:43 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>, "tls@ietf.org" <tls@ietf.org>
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 16:43:38 -0500
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> By transmitting this SCSV, the client is saying to the server "just so you know, i tried a better protocol, but it didn't work -- if you meant to accept better protocols, then someone is messing with us, please abort."

That's a really nice explanation.

+1


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