Session Key Negotiation

[Richard Salz]

> I am designing a transport-layer encryption protocol, and obviously wish
> to use as much existing knowledge as possible, in particular TLS, which
> AFAICT seems to be the state of the art.

In general, it's probably a good idea to look at existing mechanisms and 
analyze why they're not appropriate, rather than start with a clean slate 
and "import" things that seem useful, especially if you don't understand 
the rationale.

        /r$

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