On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 10:40 PM, Mike Hoy <[email protected]> wrote:
> We use McAfee to scan our website for vulnerabilities. They claim the
> following:
>>
>> Configure SSL/TLS servers to only use TLS 1.1 or TLS 1.2 if supported.
>> Configure SSL/TLS servers to only support cipher suites that do not use
>> block ciphers. Apply patches if available.

What kind of crazy advice is this?

>
> I ran #openssl version and it says we are using OpenSSL 0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 01
> Jul 2008.
>
> Do we need to upgrade our OpenSSL to upgrade our TLS/SSL server? Sorry if
> the question is way off-base but I am not a system administrator normally.
> This is new to me. We use CentOS and #yum install openssl claims it is
> already at the higest version. Any suggestions appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Mike Hoy
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