On 10/18/2014 02:42 AM, Gabriel wrote:
> A Williams wrote on 17/10/14 21.33:
> 
>> You know Google reported a hole in SSL at the start of the week?  It was 
>> around
>> the time the latest Firefox came out and they were planning to disable SSL
>> support with the next level in mid November.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> yes I already new about the SSL3 bug.
> 
> 
>> I don't have the newest Seamonkey yet (it has not propagated to my Linux
>> distribution yet) but Apple *may* possibly have taken this step already.
>>   Firefox disabled configuration except by about:config last year but 
>> Seamonkey
>> did not.
>>
>> Preferences -> Privacy & Security -> SSL -> SSL Protocol Versions.
>> Is SSL 3.0 enabled?
>> btw:
>> - the checked boxes have to be contiguous.
>> - SSL 3.0 < TLS 1.0.
> 
> It does not work.
> The error is not about the cypher used, but about the certificate not being 
> recognised even if it's in the exception list. I do have SSL3 enabled on SM.
> 
> 
>>
>> Google will tell you how to do this for Firefox.  It was non-intuitive to me.
> 
> I agree with you.
> 
>>
>> The hole in SSL was large enough to make disabling it a sensible idea. My
>> preference would be towards leaving it off rather than keeping it for 
>> localhost.
> 
> Disabling SSL3 by default will forbid you to connect to a lot of services, 
> most 
> of them on shared hostings; at least this is how FF now works (badly) if you 
> try to connect on ports used by webmails, cPanel and such.
> I think the user should still have the choice.
> 
> G.
> 
Check to see if your system mozilla-nss is up to date:

<https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/968257>
<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26389964/firefox-33-0-wont-open-a-specific-local-application-error-code-sec-error-inva>
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