[Chicken-users] OpenSSL egg option defaults poll

2014-10-15 Thread Thomas Chust
Hello, Mario Domenech Goulart raised the issue that the OpenSSL egg by default creates connections that can use any of the SSLv2, SSLv3 or TLSv1.x protocols, depending on the capabilities of the remote peer. This default is not particularly secure, especially when considering the recently

Re: [Chicken-users] OpenSSL egg option defaults poll

2014-10-15 Thread Andy Bennett
Hi Thomas! So I would like to poll for opinions from people on this list concerning this situation. Do you think the default options in the OpenSSL egg should be hardened? Do you think more options should be introduced? Is compatibility with the rest of the internet a concern at all? ;-) We

Re: [Chicken-users] OpenSSL egg option defaults poll

2014-10-15 Thread Thomas Chust
On Thu, 16 Oct 2014, Andy Bennett wrote: [...] Having said that, I'm not sure which clients on which operating systems are SSL 3.0 only. [...] Hello Andy, if I understand the situation correctly, almost nobody uses SSLv3 since it was quickly superseded by the newer TLS variants. But the