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Re: [TLS] ban more old crap

Benjamin Beurdouche <benjamin.beurdouche@inria.fr> Sat, 25 July 2015 13:41 UTC

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> On 25/07/15 06:46, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:
>> I hope, that by ~2017, RC4 will no longer be required either, and
>> we'll be able to disable RC4 in Postfix at that time.
> 
> Seems to me that should be a reasonable match for expecting to see
> TLS1.3 getting deployed in lots of parts of the mail infrastructure,
> so that date would argue to not support rc4 at all in TLS1.3 in my
> conclusion (not that I know much about mail deployment trends).
> 
> And if we have any support for rc4 in TLS1.3 it'll end up a footgun
> that'll damage many toes, so count me amongst those arguing for no
> rc4 (or similar) at all in TLS1.3.

+1, though, my understanding was that RC4 was already out of TLS 1.3..
In general I think we could all agree that we should never keep broken stuff in TLS even if it is used a lot…

Best,
B.

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