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Re: [TLS] Working Group Last Call for draft-ietf-tls-downgrade-scsv-00

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Wed, 15 October 2014 12:43 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Hanno Böck <hanno@hboeck.de>, "tls@ietf.org" <tls@ietf.org>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 08:43:17 -0400
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> So the number I want to see is: How many servers are there that are not
> capable of correctly negotiating the SSL/TLS versions they support?

That's not the question that SCSV is trying to address.

The question is:  how many clients end up using SSLv3 when the could use something better?

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