On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 08:31:36AM -0600, Bob Beck wrote:
> > But it officially requires support for IPP version 1.0, which used
> > SSLv3.
> > I assume that there are printers, perhaps many were sold, which did use
> > version 1.0. That version used SSLv3 for encrypted communication. Which
> > is now gone.
> 
> Almost certainly.
> 
> >
> > How should we deal with this problem?
> 
> Here's a nickel kid - buy a better printer?
> 

That makes sense. Any big operation is going to be replacing printers
regularly due to hwavy use. Any small operation probably won't have much
in the way of security needs.

I don't know much about OpenSSL, "nice" to know that crap is still
buildable for those "special" needs.

Chris

> Seriously. we just won't be conformant. These protocols are designed
> by industry consortiums who want to sell product at lowest cost, not
> care about security.   If you seriously must have insecure stuff,
> well, that's why OpenSSL still exists, you can always build with that.

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