On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 04:47:22PM -0400, John Lane Schultz wrote:
> The documentation says that a client will use a TLS hello even
> when SSLv3 is one of its supported protocols. The problem then
> is, how can such a client communicate with an SSLv3 only server,
> which probably won't understand the TLS hello msg?
The TLS and SSLv3 client hello messages are identical. This message
carries a minimum and maximum protocol version number and interoperates
with SSLv3 when the minimum protocol is SSL 3.0. TLSv1 is SSL 3.1.
TLSv1.1 is SSL 3.2, ...
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