Re: [saag] AD review of draft-iab-crypto-alg-agility-06

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Thu, 27 August 2015 21:01 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>, Watson Ladd <watsonbladd@gmail.com>
Thread-Topic: [saag] AD review of draft-iab-crypto-alg-agility-06
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> The reason for step 4 is a little ugly.  We run openssl on our download
> servers.  We want to offer Firefox downloads to users who have old and
> busted browsers.

We have a similar issue at www.openssl.org.  I recently locked things down to get an A+ from SSLLabs.  This meant some folks had a harder time getting updates.  I pointed them to the FTP server.  And old, LTS python, doesn't do TLS very well.  I don't recall what they're going to do.