Re: Action Item 18 - understand/visualize the strength of SSL

Yngve N. Pettersen (Developer Opera Software ASA) wrote:
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> In this case we can either warn the user, or refuse to connect; we 
> cannot remove the method.

Yes. I don't think we can rely on implementations not including
"weak" ciphers. The fact that the definition of "weak" changes
over time is the clincher for me - when you're coding you don't
know whether some smart person somewhere's going to discover a
devastating attack on cipher-foo.

S.

Received on Friday, 8 December 2006 12:50:19 UTC