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Re: [TLS] The risk of misconfiguration

Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> Tue, 06 May 2014 22:23 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] The risk of misconfiguration
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Banning anon ciphersuites is NOT a good idea.  We have at least two
uses for them (more assuming we retain renego):

 - channel binding with tls-unique CB

 - opportunistic security (as in the SAAG list thread on OS, and, of
course, what some SMTP MTAs do)

Nico
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