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RFC 7507
Title: TLS Fallback Signaling Cipher Suite Value (SCSV)
for Preventing Protocol Downgrade Attacks
Author: B. Moeller, A. Langley
Status: Standards Track
Stream: IETF
Date: April 2015
Mailbox: bmoeller@acm.org, agl@google.com
Pages: 8
Characters: 17165
Updates: RFC 2246, RFC 4346, RFC 4347, RFC 5246, RFC 6347
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-tls-downgrade-scsv-05.txt
URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7507
This document defines a Signaling Cipher Suite Value (SCSV) that
prevents protocol downgrade attacks on the Transport Layer Security
(TLS) and Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) protocols. It
updates RFCs 2246, 4346, 4347, 5246, and 6347. Server update
considerations are included.
This document is a product of the Transport Layer Security Working Group of the IETF.
This is now a Proposed Standard.
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