I think the ability to exploit POODLE via the backchannel is fairly limited 
because of the requirement for client certs during initial negotiation.

But having said that, I think that we should make this an option so that it can 
be disabled when people are ready/willing to do so.

-- Jorj


On Oct 16, 2014, at 12:08 PM, Liam Hoekenga <li...@umich.edu> wrote:

> The calls to SSL_CTX_new all use "SSLv23_client_method", which also supports 
> TLS (up to v1.2).  So, I guess we /could/ disable SSLv3 in common/conf.c.
> 
> Should we consider supporting Mozilla's NSS in addition to OpenSSL?  It looks 
> like someone at redhat wrote a compatibility layer.
> 
> Liam
> 
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Jorj Bauer <j...@isc.upenn.edu> wrote:
> Well, I would certainly think that institutions would be considering the 
> impact of disabling SSLv3 in their own environments. I don't think that SSLv3 
> is old enough, or in little enough use, that we could mandate such a change.
> 
> -- Jorj
> 
> 
> On Oct 16, 2014, at 11:37 AM, Liam Hoekenga <li...@umich.edu> wrote:
> 
> > The cosign code in github disables SSLv2 for the cosign cgi and filter.
> > How worried do we need to be about SSLv3 and the POODLE exploit?
> >
> > Liam
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