Re: GnuTLS/TLS proposals for after the release

[Robert Pluim]

John Wiegley <address@hidden> writes:

>>>>>> Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> They have different purposes: (1) is to make tls.el, which uses command-line
>> tunnels, more noisy by default, so users are led to the C bindings to GnuTLS
>> (gnutls.el). (2) is to disable SSLv3 in tls.el. (3) is to change the
>> variables in gnutls.el a bit to make customization and future work easier.
>> (3) is the only risky one because it affects user customizations, but I
>> think we have to bite that buller sooner or later.
>
> OK. Does anyone else have a reason to object to these changes?

rfc7568 says, with good reason:

>3.  Do Not Use SSL Version 3.0
>
>   SSLv3 MUST NOT be used.  Negotiation of SSLv3 from any version of TLS
>   MUST NOT be permitted.

so I definitely vote for disabling SSLv3 (and rapidly deprecating
tls.el)

Robert