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Re: [Uta] On prohibiting RC4

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Sat, 08 March 2014 09:13 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Uta] On prohibiting RC4
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On 8 March 2014 08:23, Yaron Sheffer <yaronf.ietf@gmail.com> wrote:
> But I don't think falling back to cleartext is the appropriate penalty for
> misconfiguration. IMHO even single-DES is better than cleartext (but don't
> quote me on that :-).

That's a hard one.  A failure provides some incentive to fix the
problem.  On the other hand, it has other less positive effects.

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