-----Original Message-----
From: curl-library [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
Daniel Stenberg
Sent: 16. oktober 2014 09:01
To: libcurl development
Subject: Re: SSLv3 fallback attack POODLE


> A decent and simple remedy to all of this is to just reject and deny SSLv3 
> completely. That'll hurt some amount of legacy services and users.
> My guess is that we probably already hurt those same users with our default 
> cipher list not including RC4. (I noticed libressl went ahead and disabled 
> SSLv3 by default.)

From a security aspect SSLv3 should be dropped completely due to its many 
weaknesses.
I think it would be a good move to follow in the footsteps of libressl.
Legacy systems are most likely also using an old version of curl.


Venlig hilsen / Best regards

Kamstrup A/S <http://www.kamstrup.dk> 
Bruno Thomsen
Development engineer
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