On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 9:25 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[email protected]>wrote:

> That said, I'm not part of the operations team either so I can't answer
> definitively.  I agree that it would probably be useful to have more formal
> progress reporting.  "Can't disable RC4 in the cipher suite until more than
> N% of our readers are using <a set of known good browsers>" for example.
>  There has been discussion elsewhere on wmf lists about metrics reporting.
>  Once the blockers were quantified, it would be easier for interested
> people to 'count the days' until greater security could be enforced, or to
> bring pressure to bear on upstream providers (of the chrome browser, of DNS
> root zones, etc) where security fixes are needed.
>

To be fair, I'm really only talking about non-restrictive changes. For
example, right now we *only* have RC4. Rather than disable RC4 (which would
have consequences), I'm saying why haven't other normal ciphers been
enabled? I don't foresee us doing anything like "all HTTPS for everybody"
anytime in the near future.

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*Tyler Romeo*
Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016
Major in Computer Science
www.whizkidztech.com | [email protected]
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