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Re: [TLS] Confirming consensus: TLS1.3->TLS*

Henrick Hellström <henrick@streamsec.se> Fri, 18 November 2016 15:56 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Confirming consensus: TLS1.3->TLS*
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On 2016-11-18 16:40, Ilari Liusvaara wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 01:03:50PM +0000, Peter Gutmann wrote:
>> So you're saying that apart from the different algorithms, cipher suites,
>> messages, message fields, message flow, handshaking, negotiation, extensions,
>> and crypto, it's practically the same thing?
>
> Yes. One can downnegotiate TLS 1.3 to TLS 1.2.

Shouldn't you be able to do that between major protocol versions as well?

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