On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 08:14:52AM -0800, Michael Thomas allegedly wrote:

> If you can't rank algorithms, is there any meaningful concept of a
> "downgrade attack"?

Furthermore, if you can't rank one as better, why would we consider
adding it to the repertoire in the first place?

> I'm sort of wondering though if Mark's problem here might be just as
> easily solved by having a "current"/"next" kind of routine. That is,

Right. That simplifies/eliminates the skipping issue.

> e2e), is there any real likelihood that a reasonable receiver will
> be two versions behind?

That's the question.


Mark.
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