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Re: [TLS] security levels for TLS

"Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu> Thu, 11 October 2007 18:26 UTC

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Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 18:26:27 +0000
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: Eric Rescorla <ekr@networkresonance.com>
Subject: Re: [TLS] security levels for TLS
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On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:23:11 -0700
Eric Rescorla <ekr@networkresonance.com> wrote:

> At Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:21:53 -0500,
> Nicolas Williams wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 08:58:27AM -0700, Eric Rescorla wrote:
> > > And again, this is an API/local isssue. IETF doesn't do
> > > those.
> > 
> > There you go again.  The IETF most certainly deals in APIs.
> 
> Let me rephrase: the IETF generally doesn't deal in APIs with a few
> prominent exceptions. The TLS-WG has never done so and I don't think
> it's a good idea to do so now.
> 
And certainly not where the goal is this dubious.  I'm with ekr: this
is a bad idea.


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb


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