On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Lois Janes <loistja...@mail.com> wrote:

> Is Pidgin vulnerable to the POODLE SSLv3 vulnerability?
>

> I know that Pidgin doesn't offer a way to disable SSLv3 support, so I'm
> specifically interested in whether Pidgin is suseptible to a TLS/SSL
> downgrade attack?
>
> Does Pidgin retry failed connections with lower SSL/TLS protocol versions?
>
> Does Pidgin support TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV?
>


The answer to all these questions depends on which SSL/TLS (gnutls or NSS)
library you're using with pidgin and the configuration of that library
(which will depend on your OS).

Pidgin/libpurple itself has no direct interaction with the SSL/TLS
handshake process.

-D



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