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Re: change_cipher_spec [was: draft agenda]

From: Tom Weinstein <tomw@netscape.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 18:25:38 -0800
Message-ID: <32A4E122.ABD@netscape.com>
To: ericg@netscape.com
CC: David Brownell - JavaSoft <david.brownell@Eng.Sun.COM>, ericm@lne.com, ietf-tls@w3.org, satishd@doppio.Eng.Sun.COM
Eric Greenberg wrote:
> 
> Note that one purpose of the change cypher spec command was to allow
> the cypher used for the SSL session to change depending upon content. 
> For example,the administrator could choose to protect one directory
> with one grade of security and another with some other form of
> security.  The value of such a feature can certainly be debated, but I
> just wanted to point out that I think this was one objective.

Um, I think you might be thinking of the ability to renegotiate the
handshake midstream.  This has nothing to do with the change cipher
spec message.

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Received on Tuesday, 3 December 1996 21:24:24 UTC

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