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Re: [TLS] Confirming consensus: TLS1.3->TLS*

Hubert Kario <hkario@redhat.com> Fri, 02 December 2016 17:00 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Confirming consensus: TLS1.3->TLS*
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On Friday, 2 December 2016 16:12:05 CET Salz, Rich wrote:
> > Here's a useful and effective meme for convincing bosses that it's ok to
> > turn off SSLv3: all known versions of SSL are broken and should never be
> > used. Please do not break this meme by trying to rename TLS to SSL.
> 
> Is "all known versions before SSL 4" that much worse?

given:
1. we have people that need support for SSLv3 and SSLv2 style Client Hello 
messages (The Web is not the only place where SSL/TLS is deployed), let alone 
TLS 1.0
2. TLS 1.2 is not broken (so the statement is demonstrably false)

yes, it is much worse

-- 
Regards,
Hubert Kario
Senior Quality Engineer, QE BaseOS Security team
Web: www.cz.redhat.com
Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkyňova 99/71, 612 45, Brno, Czech Republic

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