Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tls-downgrade-scsv
Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> Fri, 24 January 2014 23:15 UTC
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Subject: Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tls-downgrade-scsv
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Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> writes: > By transmitting this SCSV, the client is saying to the server "just so > you know, i tried a better protocol, but it didn't work -- if you meant > to accept better protocols, then someone is messing with us, please abort." Another way to phrase this is that the client is saying "I think you are an old buggy server. If you think you are not an old buggy server, please abort." The implicit assumption is that there will not be new buggy servers. I think that's the greatest weakness of this concept.
- [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tls-do… Eric Rescorla
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Ben Laurie
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Adam Langley
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Kurt Roeckx
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Adam Langley
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Rob Stradling
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Adam Langley
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Rob Stradling
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Adam Langley
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Michael D'Errico
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Martin Thomson
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Bodo Moeller
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Martin Rex
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Ben Laurie
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Kurt Roeckx
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Martin Rex
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Daniel Kahn Gillmor
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Salz, Rich
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Geoffrey Keating
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Martin Rex
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Martin Rex
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Watson Ladd
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Martin Rex
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Bodo Moeller
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Yoav Nir
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Daniel Kahn Gillmor
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Watson Ladd
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Bill Frantz
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Yoav Nir
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Watson Ladd
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Yngve N. Pettesen
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Bodo Moeller
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Bodo Moeller
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Martin Rex
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Martin Rex
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Michael D'Errico
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Michael D'Errico
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Adam Langley
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Bodo Moeller
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Martin Rex
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Adam Langley
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Andrei Popov
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Andrei Popov
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Adam Langley
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Martin Rex
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Watson Ladd
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Bodo Moeller
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Bodo Moeller
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… t.petch
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Andrei Popov
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Yoav Nir
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Andrei Popov
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Adam Langley
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Watson Ladd
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Adam Langley
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Martin Rex
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Joseph Salowey (jsalowey)
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Russ Housley
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Marsh Ray
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Eric Rescorla
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Bodo Möller
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Yngve N. Pettersen