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RE: Last Call: <draft-ietf-tls-ssl2-must-not-03.txt> (Prohibiting SSL Version 2.0) to Proposed Standard

2010-12-01 20:31:46
Section 3 says "TLS clients MUST NOT send SSL 2.0 CLIENT-HELLO messages."
and "TLS servers MUST NOT negotiate or use SSL 2.0" and later "TLS servers
that do not support SSL 2.0 MAY accept version 2.0 CLIENT-HELLO messages as
the first message of a TLS handshake for interoperability with old clients."
Taken together, I find these statements quite confusing, if not outright
self-contradictory.  Maybe, a "However" might fix the problem, though: 

        TLS servers MUST NOT negotiate or use SSL 2.0; however, TLS servers 
        MAY accept SSL 2.0 CLIENT-HELLO messages as the first message of a 
        TLS handshake in order to maintain interoperability with legacy 
        clients.


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