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Re: [TLS] PR for anti-downgrade mechanism

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Fri, 09 October 2015 20:59 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>, Dave Garrett <davemgarrett@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [TLS] PR for anti-downgrade mechanism
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> It's largely arbitrary, but the reasoning is as follows.

And so that we can put "TLS1.3" as the six bytes in UTF-8.

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