Re: [XHR] chunked requests

On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 6:11 AM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:54:31 +0100, Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> wrote:
>>
>> Unfortunately, many servers do not support TLS 1.1, and to make matters
>> worse, they do so in a way that is not securely verifiable. By which I
>> mean that an active attacker can force a client/server pair both of which
>> support TLS 1.1 down to TLS 1.0. This may be detectable in some way, but not
>> by TLS's built-in mechanisms. And since the threat model here is an active
>> attacker, this is a problem.
>
> It seems user agents are addressing this issue in general by simply removing
> support for those servers so we might not have to define anything here and
> just leave it to the TLS standards:
>
> http://my.opera.com/securitygroup/blog/2011/12/11/opera-11-60-and-new-problems-with-some-secure-servers

I would still add a security consideration so folks who implement this
are aware that the two issues are related.

Adam

Received on Saturday, 17 December 2011 18:13:22 UTC