Re: [TLS] OE + TLS support

Martin Rex <martin.rex@sap.com> Wed, 14 February 2007 16:47 UTC

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From: Martin Rex <martin.rex@sap.com>
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Subject: Re: [TLS] OE + TLS support
To: mike-list@pobox.com
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:44:10 +0100
In-Reply-To: <45D326E3.4020500@pobox.com> from "Mike" at Feb 14, 7 07:12:35 am
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Mike wrote:
> 
> > One government body I know has this set to the default (for their OS) of 
> > SSL2 Yes
> > SSL3 Yes
> > TLS1 No
> > and can I get them to change it????? 
> 
> Well if you try to connect to www.americanexpress.com using TLS 1.0,
> it chokes, but SSLv3 works.  If they can be stuck in the past, there
> are probably lots of others.

On what in particular do they choke?
Choking if you send them a correct SSL Hello (3.0 record protocol version,
3.1 client version) would be a problem, aborting if you do not agree
to a server-asserted/chosen SSL v3.0 protocol should be OK.

-Martin

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