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Re: [TLS] Prohibiting SSL 3.0

Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> Wed, 29 October 2014 10:52 UTC

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From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
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Hubert Kario <hkario@redhat.com> writes:

>Even the TLS 1.3 draft says that a client SHOULD NOT send a SSLv2 compatible
>client hello with server support being stated as MAY. 

Good grief, it's still allowing SSLv2 after nearly *twenty years*?  This
should have been MUST NOT for both client and server years ago, and at an
absolute minimum SHOULD NOT SSLv3 as well.

Peter.

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