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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
To: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>,
	Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bug#766395: emacs/gnus: Uses s_client to for SSL.
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 22:56:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141023225621.753e2c9f@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141023210546.GA18158@roeckx.be>

On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 23:05:46 +0200 Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be> wrote:
> > So, why do we need to support SSL
> > 3.0 again? What's the rationale, other than making the lives of
> > attackers easy?
> 
> I'm all for dropping SSL 3.0 support and I disabled it in openssl
> in Debian testing and unstable.  This was already planned for some
> time, and the POODLE attack made me just do it.

Then we're pretty much in agreement already and no more needs to be
said. :)

> But if your concern is about the POODLE attack, please note that
> the attack requires many connection attemps where the attacker has
> control over the plaintext that is being send.

Long experience says that attacks only get stronger with time. (They
don't get weaker -- people don't forget attacks -- and smart people
often figure out refinements.) I prefer closing the door rather than
waiting to find out what the next implication of downgrade attacks is.

Anyway, you agree with me on the SSL 3.0 part, and I'm not seriously
suggesting TLS 1.0 be dropped *yet*, so we agree.

Perry
-- 
Perry E. Metzger		perry@piermont.com



  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-24  2:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20141022193441.GA11872@roeckx.be>
2014-10-22 20:02 ` Bug#766395: emacs/gnus: Uses s_client to for SSL Rob Browning
2014-10-22 20:05   ` Rob Browning
2014-10-23 14:03     ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-10-23 15:57       ` Rob Browning
2014-10-24 13:39         ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-02-20 15:28           ` Kurt Roeckx
2016-02-21  2:47             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2017-02-22 20:38               ` Bug#766397: " Antoine Beaupre
2017-04-16 17:28                 ` Rob Browning
2014-10-22 20:14   ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-22 21:02   ` Andreas Schwab
2014-10-23 16:49     ` Andreas Schwab
2014-10-23 17:29       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-10-23 20:36         ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-24  7:01           ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-10-27 19:42             ` Filipp Gunbin
2014-10-23 16:34   ` Richard Stallman
2014-10-23 18:00     ` Florian Weimer
2014-10-23 18:37       ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-23 18:43         ` Florian Weimer
2014-10-23 18:57           ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-23 18:59             ` Florian Weimer
2014-10-23 19:11               ` Kurt Roeckx
2014-10-23 19:42               ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-23 19:50                 ` Florian Weimer
2014-10-23 20:26                   ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-23 21:05                     ` Kurt Roeckx
2014-10-24  2:56                       ` Perry E. Metzger [this message]
2014-10-23 21:48                 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-24  3:00                   ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-24 20:51                     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-24 21:14                       ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-24 21:33                         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-10-25  0:36                           ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-25 15:27                           ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-10-25 15:53                             ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-10-26  8:15                               ` Florian Weimer
2014-10-26 11:42                                 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-10-26 12:45                                   ` Florian Weimer
2014-10-26  1:42                             ` Richard Stallman
2014-10-26  7:38                               ` Florian Weimer
2014-10-24 21:47                         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-25  0:42                           ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-27 17:17                             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-27 19:39                               ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-28  7:04                                 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-28  7:45                                   ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-10-28  8:44                                     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-28 13:31                                   ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-28 15:19                                     ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-28 15:33                                       ` Florian Weimer
2014-10-28 16:20                                         ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-28 16:52                                       ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-28 17:11                                         ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-29  3:19                                       ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-28 15:10                                   ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-29  2:33                                     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-29  3:06                                       ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-29  7:28                                         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-29 11:19                                           ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-23 19:03             ` Kurt Roeckx
2014-10-24 13:35     ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-10-25  7:31       ` Richard Stallman
2014-10-25 14:33         ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-25 15:49         ` removing SSLv3 support by default from the Emacs GnuTLS integration (was: Bug#766395: emacs/gnus: Uses s_client to for SSL.) Ted Zlatanov

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