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Re: Session Key Negotiation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Salz)
Fri Dec 2 12:33:54 2005
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To: Will Morton <macavity@well.com>
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From: Richard Salz <rsalz@us.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 11:41:25 -0500
> I am designing a transport-layer encryption protocol, and obviously wish
> to use as much existing knowledge as possible, in particular TLS, which
> AFAICT seems to be the state of the art.
In general, it's probably a good idea to look at existing mechanisms and
analyze why they're not appropriate, rather than start with a clean slate
and "import" things that seem useful, especially if you don't understand
the rationale.
/r$
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