On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 01:27:57PM -0700, Tony Arcieri wrote:

> On Friday, August 28, 2015, Dang, Quynh <quynh.d...@nist.gov> wrote:
> >
> > People who don't use DSA, then they don't use DSA. People who use DSA
> > right, it should be fine for them to use DSA.
> >
> Can you name one of these people? If not, you seem to be arguing for
> including legacy protocols with no real-world use case in mind.
> 
> In absence of real-world use cases, removing legacy baggage from TLS
> reduces attack surface and makes things easier for implementers.

Also *improves* interoperability, because the client HELLO carries
fewer cipher-suite code points, helping with systems that are
intolerant of large HELLO messages or only process a subset of the
indicated ciphers.

-- 
        Viktor.

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