[ietf-dkim] New Issue: Base: Upgrade indication and protection against downgrade attacks

Mark Delany MarkD+dkim at yahoo-inc.com
Thu Feb 16 10:14:49 PST 2006


On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 09:55:17AM -0800, Dave Crocker allegedly wrote:

> Having an agility approach that we like more than any other approach, and that 
> just happens to be robust against downgrade attack, is different than focusing 
> on the concern for downgrade attack.

Right. There are any number of reasons why we may have to change
algs. Security attacks, costs, IP claims...


Mark.


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