Re: 7.3.1 stamped

scott.marlowe wrote:
> > I wasn't sure how insecure SSL2 was, and whether it allowed you to
> > authenticate without a password or something.
>
> SSL2 seems to get a lot of votes for being broken in ways that cannot be
> fixed because they aren't simple buffer overflows. see:
>
> http://www.lne.com/ericm/papers/ssl_servers.html#1.2
>
> My suggestion would be to eventually phase out ssl2 in favor of ssl3 or
> tls. And, as we are phasing it out, make it an opt-in thing, where the
> dba has to turn on ssl2 KNOWING he is turning on a flawed protocol.

That was sort of my point --- if we allow SSLv2 in the server, are we
open to any security problems? Maybe not. I just don't know.

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