On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 7:43 PM, Eric Covener <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 2:35 PM, William A. Rowe Jr.
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > If we have another vote supporting only the -SSLv2 / default ciphers
> >> > bits from rjung's proposed patch to httpd.conf.in - then I'm also
> >> > happy to kill SSLv2 from the default config of this final tarball.
> >> > I've gone ahead and created a patch of that small subset for
> >> > consideration in http://people.apache.org/~wrowe/2.0-ssl-noV2.patch
> >
> > I realized that the ~rjung patch was missing the indicated MSIE changes,
> > and the ssl how-to docs disagreed with the new config, it seems both of
> > those patches has slipped from his changeset.
> >
> > I've re-proposed the patch with those two additional changes, and would
> > appreciate a quick once-over to confirm it all looks good.  The CHANGES
> > patch is probably more illuminating to reviewers than the STATUS entry
> > itself.
> >
>
> I am personally just barely -0 to default conf change this late in
> life (half because I assume people don't pick it up, half because some
> people might and not be expecting such changes for the "final"
> maintenance release).  The cipher strings make my head spin which
> probably adds to it.
>

I was a bit confused trying to tie some of the changes to newer branches.
 Maybe the confusion is that we're ahead of 2.2.x in some respects.  E.g.,
2.2.x's ssl_howto still says to use this for strong encryption:

SSLProtocol all
SSLCipherSuite HIGH:MEDIUM

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