On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 08:54:17AM -0600, Bryan K. Walton wrote:
> 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.
Mail is not a web browser.
> 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.
Also, mail is not a web server.
> 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:
You can do that if you at the same time _enforce_ encryption, for
example on submission.
Bastian
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