Re: Can'somebody tell me why SSL2 is still by default

2005-06-01 Thread Julien Pierre
Ian, Ian G wrote: That was my thought also. And what's more, Ben posted on my blog at https://www.financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/000463.html a week back that Apache 2.1 supports TLS upgrade - http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.1/mod/mod_ssl.html#sslengine "New in Apache 2.1, S

Re: Can'somebody tell me why SSL2 is still by default

2005-06-01 Thread Ian G
On Wednesday 01 June 2005 19:01, Gervase Markham wrote: > Duane wrote: > > This is especially important for web related uses > > as you could also send the hostname you wanted to connect to before > > doing the handshaking, which means if a server has 50 certificates to > > choose from, and you sen

Re: Can'somebody tell me why SSL2 is still by default

2005-06-01 Thread Gervase Markham
Duane wrote: This is especially important for web related uses as you could also send the hostname you wanted to connect to before doing the handshaking, which means if a server has 50 certificates to choose from, and you send a specific hostname it can try and match that and send you the right c

Re: Can'somebody tell me why SSL2 is still by default

2005-06-01 Thread Duane
Ian G wrote: > Something I've been meaning to ask - is there any particular > reason to continue to discuss SSLv3 when instead we could > just talk about and promote TLSv1 ? That is, is there anything > in the two specs and the deployed implementations that might > make one or the other incompati

Re: Can'somebody tell me why SSL2 is still by default

2005-06-01 Thread Ian G
> Nelson B wrote: > > Please read appendix E.2 of the SSL3 specification and TLS standard. > > (It's the same appendix and same text in both documents). > > SSL3 spec:http://wp.netscape.com/eng/ssl3/draft302.txt > > TLS standard: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2246.txt Something I've been m