Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla have all announced that they will
be deprecating TLS 1.0 and 1.1 in March 2020, in their web browsers.
Similarly, SSL Labs has announced that they will be downgrading web
server scores to a maximum of B, starting in January 2020, if that
webserver supports TLS 1.0/1.1.

Now, I know that what is good for web servers/browsers, isn't
necessarily the same for SMTP servers.  For example, I've learned from
this mailing list that public facing MTAs should not require
super-strong ciphers because that may force another MTA to use
unencrypted communication:

http://postfix.1071664.n5.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=print_post&node=88919

http://postfix.1071664.n5.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=print_post&node=80355

How does the recommendation that we not REQUIRE super-strong ciphers
relate to the issue of TLS protocols?  Should we continue to allow TLS
1.0/1.1 for the same reason that we should allow weak ciphers?

Thanks!
Bryan

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