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Re: des-cbc cipher



On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 11:01:20AM -0500, RJ Atkinson wrote:
>         Those implementations PRE-DATE the first draft spec.  So 
> they can't be blamed now for following a draft that DIDN'T EXIST
> at the time it was coded up.  The history is relevant here -- ugly
> to be sure, but highly relevant.

implementations pre-dating the first draft can never be compliant,
since they won't be using the correct session id, for example.

-m



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