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Re: [XCON] Re: tsv-dir review of draft-ietf-xcon-bfcp-connection-04

2007-06-17 09:01:45
At Sun, 17 Jun 2007 11:07:10 -0400,
Brian Rosen wrote:

Minor nit on the last part:
    When the keys are randomly generated and of sufficient length,
    these attacks do not obtain

"obtain" doesn't work.  Either "do not succeed" or "generally do not
succeed" or even "usually fail".

Actually, I think obtain is fine (though a bit obscure) here.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/obtain


3. (intransitive): To prevail; to succeed.
4. (intransitive): To exist

    Even though the Pervaise confession had never come to light, no reasonable 
doubt could obtain; for the act in question [...] was on a par with countless 
other acts committed by the oligarchs, and, before them, by the capitalists. -- 
Jack London, The Iron Heel.


The more common replacement would be "apply".

-Ekr

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