Re: Additional network security

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> How about extending the GnuTLS priority string to also specify the NSM
> level, DH bits, etc? So the user would say "NORMAL:NSM(medium,dh=1024)"
> and we'd cut out all the NSM bits before passing it on to GnuTLS. If
> there's nothing in the priority string, we'd look at
> `network-security-level', that would be the out-of-the-box use case.

I'm not sure we need to allow this to be customised at this fine-grained
level.  Does Firefox allow that, for instance?

> RC4 should be disallowed on medium IMO. I *think* it already is
> disallowed in the default GnuTLS priority string.

There are prominent web sites that only offer RC4, most famously the
video streams from Youtube.  (Because Google.)  

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