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Re: [Uta] On prohibiting RC4

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Fri, 07 March 2014 14:25 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Alyssa Rowan <akr@akr.io>, "uta@ietf.org" <uta@ietf.org>
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 09:25:34 -0500
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> Of course not. Scepticism is entirely reasonable. I am relaying what I've been told by sources that _I_ trust, not asking you to trust them in turn.

You are asking me to trust you.

How do I know that you're not trying to trick me into using a cipher that has been broken?

	/r$

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Akamai Technology
Cambridge, MA

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