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Re: [TLS] record-level version number in ClientHello

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Mon, 03 November 2014 19:31 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] record-level version number in ClientHello
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On 1 November 2014 15:11, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard <mpg@polarssl.org> wrote:
> I certainly agree about not supporting SSLv3 at all, but I'm not convinced
> rejecting record-level 03 00 this is the best thing to do . In practice this
> mostly means rejecting clients that want to interoperate with old servers.

Yes, our current guidance is that servers SHOULD accept these
sessions, as long as they don't negotiate SSLv3. [1]

[1] https://github.com/unicorn-wg/sslv3-diediedie

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