Re: [openssl-dev] [openssl-users] Proposed cipher changes for post-1.0.2

2015-02-11 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 03:46:54PM +, Salz, Rich wrote: > > I agree with Viktor. His suggestion (keep RC4 in MEDIUM, suppress it > > explicitly in DEFAULT) is a good one that maintains important backward > > compatibility while providing the desired removal of RC4 by default. There's > > no ad

Re: [openssl-dev] [openssl-users] Proposed cipher changes for post-1.0.2

2015-02-11 Thread Salz, Rich
> I agree with Viktor. His suggestion (keep RC4 in MEDIUM, suppress it > explicilty in DEFAULT) is a good one that maintains important backward > compatibility while providing the desired removal of RC4 by default. There's > no advantage to moving RC4 to LOW. Sure there is: it's an accurate descr

Re: [openssl-dev] [openssl-users] Proposed cipher changes for post-1.0.2

2015-02-10 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 03:30:57AM +, Salz, Rich wrote: > > By all means, don't use it, but it is not OpenSSL's choice to make by > > breaking > > the meaning of existing interfaces. > > Except that we've explicitly stated we're breaking things with this new > release. > > Those magic ciph