From: "Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)" <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
To: 9front@9front.org, fulton@fulton.software
Subject: Re: [9front] [patch] devtls updates
Date: Sun, 30 May 2021 17:03:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0322c8c47de30866@orthanc.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA52C64787183A612538F6AF9EEB9D6E@fulton.software>
There's a lot of old hardware out there that only speaks these
obsolete methods and which will never see an upgrade. I have a
half-dozen switches in use at home that fit this category. Rather
than completely gut this support, it would be better to turn it
off in the default configuration, but leave a switch that can be
used to enable the obsolete cruft only when required.
This is how OpenBSD's SSH handles obsolate ciphers. Disabled by
default, but I can request them when needed. And you might be
surprised at how much recent vintage network gear in our data centre
needs those old ciphers :-(
Most SSL libraries work the same way, albeit often with bad default
settings and very awkward configuration schemes.
--lyndon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-31 14:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-30 15:05 fulton
2021-05-31 0:03 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) [this message]
2021-05-31 15:37 ` ori
2021-05-31 22:46 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
2021-06-02 0:38 ` ori
2021-06-02 4:30 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
2021-05-31 11:45 ` cinap_lenrek
2021-05-31 16:16 ` fulton
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