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Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tls-downgrade-scsv

mrex@sap.com (Martin Rex) Fri, 24 January 2014 21:05 UTC

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To: Ben Laurie <benl@google.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 22:05:34 +0100
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Subject: Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tls-downgrade-scsv
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Ben Laurie wrote:
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> On 24 January 2014 18:52, Martin Rex <mrex@sap.com> wrote:
> > Eric Rescorla wrote:
> >> WG Members,
> >>
> >> This message is a call for acceptance of
> >> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-bmoeller-tls-downgrade-scsv-01
> >>
> >> As a TLS WG item.
> >>
> >> Please provide any comments on this action by Feb 7.
> >
> > -1
> >
> > I'm strongly opposed to a scheme whose only purpose in life is
> > to make TLS handshakes _fail_ based on bogus heuristics by the
> > wrong communication peer.
> 
> Which one is the wrong one?

The server is definitely the wrong peer to guess whether
the client wants to continue or abort TLS handshake.

-Martin

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