On 06/07/14 20:29, Yaron Sheffer wrote:
> Adding some data to my previous mail:
> 
> As of Jan. 2014, 65% of the top 1M Web servers did not speak TLS 1.1 or
> 1.2 [1]. So while we should move implementations to TLS 1.2 (as we do in
> this draft), it is probably too early to mandate against the fallback to
> TLS 1.0.

I wonder if that's changed post-heartbleed? I suspect it may well
have but no idea by how much. Anyone know?

S.

> 
> Thanks,
>     Yaron
> 
> [1] https://jve.linuxwall.info/blog/index.php?post/TLS_Survey
> 
> On 07/06/2014 10:09 PM, Yaron Sheffer wrote:
>> Hi Trevor, thanks for your review. Please see my comments in line.
>>
>> On 06/30/2014 09:11 PM, Trevor Freeman wrote:
>>> General Comments.
>>>
> [...]
> 
>>>
>>> Section 3.2 still treats SSL 3.0 differently to TLS 1.0. Why is it ok to
>>> fall back to TLS 1.0 but not SSL 3.0 if both offer the same security?
>>
>> This is a good question. I believe the answer is, because much of the
>> server population still only supports TLS 1.0, and if we recommend
>> otherwise, the recommendation will be ignored for (justified)
>> interoperability reasons. But I may be wrong about the prevalence of
>> such servers.
>>
> [...]
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