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Re: Last Call: draft-hoffman-tls-additional-random-ext (Additional Random

2010-04-21 17:29:50
At 12:05 AM +0200 4/22/10, Martin Rex wrote:
The IESG wrote:

The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider
the following document:

- 'Additional Random Extension to TLS '
   <draft-hoffman-tls-additional-random-ext-01.txt> as a Proposed Standard


I'm somewhat confused to see a Last Call for this proposal.

We had a discussion on this document on the TLS WG mailing list and
determined that this proposal is completely unable to achieve
the stated goal.  This extension is completely bogus.

You came to that conclusion; many other folks disagreed. You stated that you 
thought it was not useful in some environments, namely with RSA authentication 
where the client has a broken PRNG. If that is the only environment you care 
about, then this extension is not useful. TLS is used in many other 
environments, of course.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium
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