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Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-09:15.ssl
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"Barry Raveendran Greene" <bgreene@senki.org> writes:
> You will have to wait on the TLS Working Group in the IETF to finish
> if your application needs renegotiation.

The correct anser is:

You will have to perform a threat assessment to determine how likely a
MITM attack is, how serious the consequences would be, whether the
product of these two factors is sufficiently low to justify continued
operation with a flawed protocol, and, should you decide to go on, what
measures can be put in place to mitigate the consequences of an attack.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no