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Re: default cipher suites in curl


From: Michael Samuel <mik () miknet net>
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 23:59:26 +1000

On 7 July 2014 22:05, Marcus Meissner <meissner () suse de> wrote:
This will only happen when the server either doesn't support stronger
ciphers or when the server requests it's cipher order be honoured and
chooses export ciphers first.   An attacker can't trigger this with SSLv3
or TLS.

I was more thinking of a man in the middle attack during the connection
setup.

That only works with SSLv2.   SSLv3 and TLSv1 won't allow this.


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