Re: Plan for moving forward

[Eric Rescorla <ekr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:22:21 -0700,
Lakshminath Dondeti wrote:
> That was one savings I was looking for.  Where it is unnecessary, 
> battery-powered devices might want to skip it.  Once there is 
> flexibility, we can think of other optimizations too.

This strikes me as an extraordinatrily modest optimization
and one that will add considerable UI and implementation
complexity, since it's nearly impossible for the user to
know whether their handset should be authenticating or not.

-Ekr