[182480] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SEC webpages inaccessible due to Firefox blocking servers with
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael O Holstein)
Fri Jul 17 15:14:21 2015
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From: Michael O Holstein <michael.holstein@csuohio.edu>
To: Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>, Robert Drake <rdrake@direcpath.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 19:14:17 +0000
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Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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>making 99% of the web secure is better than keeping an old 1% working
A fine idea, unless for $reason your application is among the 1% .. nevermi=
nd the arrogance of the "I'm sorry Dave" sort of attitude.
As an example .. we have a vendor who, in the current release (last 3 month=
s) still requires "weak" ciphers in authentication responses. That was most=
ly okay until another vendor (with more sense) wanted to auth the same way =
but only permitted strong ciphers.=20
My $0.02
Michael Holstein
Cleveland State University=
