Re: [TLS] prohibit <1.2 support on 1.3+ servers (but allow clients)

Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be> Thu, 21 May 2015 21:03 UTC

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From: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
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Subject: Re: [TLS] prohibit <1.2 support on 1.3+ servers (but allow clients)
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On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 12:10:42PM -0400, Dave Garrett wrote:
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> The reasoning here is that major server updates are unfortunately uncommon, but client updates are routine.

So everybody can already disable TLS 1.0 and 1.1 now, right?  All
clients have already been updated.


Kurt