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Re: [TLS] Prohibiting SSL 3.0

Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> Wed, 29 October 2014 12:51 UTC

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From: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>
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Subject: Re: [TLS] Prohibiting SSL 3.0
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On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 3:51 AM, Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
wrote:

> 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.


I haven't gotten around to rewriting this section yet, but it's on my list

-Ekr


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