Re: [TLS] New draft for "next protocol"

Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de> Tue, 31 May 2011 07:03 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] New draft for "next protocol"
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* Adam Langley:

> Previous versions of the websockets protocol have had to be
> reverted[1] because of cross-protocol attacks where an attacker
> creates confusion about which protocol is being used.

Are you sure that analysis was correct?  I'm reasonably certain that
it's not.  In other words, you got punked.

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