For those interested I contacted Troy Hunt who had this to say

*"An F grade is unacceptably bad, definitely something he needs to get
sorted. Hold the web developer / company accountable for that."*

He also sent a link to an article of his which is quite interesting

http://www.troyhunt.com/2015/05/do-you-really-want-bank-grade-security.html

Cheers

On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 2:24 PM, Tom Rutter <[email protected]> wrote:

> Folks
>
> I noticed a mate's shopping site over the weekend returning the following
> in the connection info for the certificate:
>
> *Your connection to www.somesite.com <http://www.somesite.com> is encypted
> using an obsolete cipher suite.*
>
> Did some googling, didn't understand much of it but landed on ssllabs.com
> which runs a test on the site. It gave the site an F rating with the
> following info
>
> - This server supports anonymous (insecure) suites (see below for
> details). Grade set to F.
> - This server supports weak Diffie-Hellman (DH) key exchange parameters.
> Grade capped to B.
> - This server accepts the RC4 cipher, which is weak. Grade capped to B.
> - This server supports TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV to prevent protocol downgrade
> attacks.
>
> Should my mate be concerned? The people who created and run his site I
> assume don't know or do know and aren't concerned. Anybody here used
> ssllabs before or an alternative and how much should you care about the
> rating? Even the microsoft store only gets a B with various warnings about
> inconsistent server configurations.
>
> Cheers
>

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