The IESG has received a request from the Transport Layer Security WG
(tls) to consider the following document:
- 'TLS Fallback Signaling Cipher Suite Value (SCSV) for Preventing
Protocol Downgrade Attacks'
<draft-ietf-tls-downgrade-scsv-03.txt> as Proposed Standard
The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits
final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the
ietf@xxxxxxxx mailing lists by 2015-01-23. Exceptionally, comments may be
sent to iesg@xxxxxxxx instead. In either case, please retain the
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I have now posted draft-ietf-tls-downgrade-scsv-04, which has editorial changes only, all in response to the various Last Call reviews:
- Abstract: appended "Server update considerations are included." [OPS-Dir review]
- Introduction: changed "particularly critical if they mean losing the TLS extension feature (when downgrading to SSL 3.0)" into "particularly harmful when the result is loss of the TLS extension feature by downgrading to SSL 3.0" [Gen-ART review]
- Introduction: added "a" with the following result: "... is not a suitable substitute ..." [SecDir review & Gen-ART review]
- Introduction: added "the" with the following result: "... if the TLS implementations also include support ..." [SecDir review]
- IANA considerations: changed URLs to http://www.iana.org/assignments/tls-parameters. [IANA review]
Bodo