Re: [TLS] Cached Info extension - Draft 01

Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de> Wed, 01 July 2009 07:11 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Cached Info extension - Draft 01
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* Stefan Santesson:

> One difficulty I have is that I don't see, and never have seen, the reason
> to provide different levels of hash algorithms for a usage that does not
> require a strong hash.

Why do you think this doesn't need a strong hash?

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