On 29 September 2016 at 02:02, Stephen Checkoway <[email protected]> wrote:
> * The only time to take the client's preference into account is if the server 
> really has no opinion on an option--e.g., two equivalent-strength cipher 
> suites--but the client can specify a preference for an option that requires 
> less computation/power for it. But I'm not entirely convinced that's worth 
> the implementation cost.

I generally agree, though we just added one small exception to NSS,
and have been discussing another for a while now:  Respecting client
preference for ChaCha over GCM makes a real difference for clients
that don't have AES-NI.

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