Re: [TLS] draft-sheffer-tls-bcp: DH recommendations

Patrick Pelletier <code@funwithsoftware.org> Mon, 16 September 2013 07:55 UTC

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On 9/15/13 12:56 PM, Yoav Nir wrote:

> There are ECDHE ciphersuites that are supported by nearly all browsers as well as well as OpenSSL (which means also Apache), IIS and others.

Supported in the source, sure.  But Red Hat will disable it when it 
builds packages:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=319901

--Patrick