On Feb 19, 2015 10:01 AM, "Barry Leiba" <barryle...@computer.org> wrote:
>
> > Barry, following up, here is some proposed text (again, not yet
coordinated
> > with my co-authors).
>
> Nice text all 'round; thanks.
>
> One question on one of them:
>
> > OLD
> >    Implementations and deployments SHOULD disable TLS-level compression
> >    ([RFC5246], Section 6.2.2).
> >
> > NEW
> >    In order to help prevent compression-related attacks (summarized in
> >    Section 2.6 of [RFC7457]), implementations and deployments SHOULD
> >    disable TLS-level compression ([RFC5246], Section 6.2.2), unless the
> >    application protocol in question has not been shown to be open to
> >    such attacks.
>
> Do you want "has not been shown to be open to such attacks", or "has
> been shown not to be open to such attacks" ?

I strongly prefer the second. We shouldn't need live demos to convince us
of issues.

>
> Barry
>
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