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Re: [TLS] drop obsolete SSL 2 backwards compatibility from TLS 1.3 draft

Yuhong Bao <yuhongbao_386@hotmail.com> Tue, 17 February 2015 08:46 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] drop obsolete SSL 2 backwards compatibility from TLS 1.3 draft
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> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 14:17:36 +0100
> From: fweimer@redhat.com
> To: tls@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [TLS] drop obsolete SSL 2 backwards compatibility from TLS 1.3 draft
>
> On 12/27/2014 11:39 PM, Dave Garrett wrote:
>> On Saturday, December 27, 2014 05:07:12 pm Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
>>> On 12/24/2014 07:40 AM, Yoav Nir wrote:
>>>> It’s fine for us to break compatibility with these clients, but let’s not
>>>> pretend it’s some ancient technology that doesn’t exist in the market
>>>> anymore.
>>>
>>> In addition the Oracle Java Runtime Environment in Version 6 uses a SSL
>>> v2 compatible ClientHello in the default settings. It supports SSL v3
>>> and TLS 1.0. In Java JRE 7 a SSLv3 ClientHello is used by default.
>>>
>>> I think a TLS 1.3 Client must not send a SSLv2 ClientHello, but a server
>>> should understand it.
>>
>> The newest version of TLS should not be have to be written to accommodate an 8
>> year old EOL Java version's default settings.
>
> I could reproduce the behavior with OpenJDK 6 which is still supported:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=880223
>
> Because it's not EOL, we can still fix the defaults, although this may
> not be what some users expect or need.

Even Oracle's latest paid support version of Java 5 and Java 6 have now disabled SSLv2Hello:
http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/java/overview-156328.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/javase/overview-137139.html

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