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Re: Merged Transport Layer Protocol Development

From: David Wagner <daw@cs.berkeley.edu>
Date: 25 Apr 1996 15:39:09 -0700
To: ietf-tls@w3.org
Message-Id: <4louud$j1@joseph.cs.berkeley.edu> 
In article <199604250249.TAA30785@slack.lne.com>,
Eric Murray  <ericm@lne.com> wrote:
> On the other hand, it doesn't hurt to use it, if you already
> have enough unguessable truly random bits.

Fair enough.

I was just trying to address the (implicit) claim that Unix time is
secret, and that there is some value in making sure that SSL/PCT/...
don't reveal it.

It was just a nitpick.  I'll shut up now.
Received on Thursday, 25 April 1996 18:39:25 EDT

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