Re: [OAUTH-WG] TLS 1.2

Rob Richards <rrichards@cdatazone.org> Tue, 16 August 2011 19:35 UTC

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Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] TLS 1.2
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I wanted to follow up on this and see if there was any consideration to 
relaxing this requirement. Can someone actually point me to a compliant 
implementation using TLS 1.2 because after looking at a number of them, 
I have yet to find one that does.

Rob

On 8/12/11 3:56 PM, Rob Richards wrote:
> The latest draft shows TLS 1.2 as a MUST (sections 3.1 and 3.2). Based 
> on a thread about this from last year I was under the impression that 
> it was going to be relaxed to a SHOULD with most likely TLS 1.0 (or 
> posssibly SSLv3) as a MUST. I think it's a bit unrealistic to require 
> 1.2 when many systems out there can't support it. IMO this is going to 
> be a big stumbling block for people to implement a compliant OAuth 
> system. Even PCI doesn't require 1.2.
>
> Rob
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