[Ach] [SSL Observatory] A TLS protocol level scan of the Alexa top 1, 000, 000

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On 01/12/2014 07:54 PM, Aaron Zauner wrote:
> He is, remember the discussion he refered us to on the mozilla crypt
> mailing list? :)
>
> BTW. I still do not agree that we need backwards compatibility to the
> middle ages of computing. That simply does not put people into the
> position that they HAVE to upgrade their systems. I'm also unsure why
> Firefox now serves TLS 1.2 but it's disabled by default. Thats a very
> confusing choice because it's not even simple to enable it for a
> generic desktop user.
That would be typical content for "Applied Cryptography for Endusers" :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security#Web_browsers has
an overview over the implementations (and if they are enable/disabled)
of TLS in webbrowsers.
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> Aaron
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> On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 7:38 PM, L. Aaron Kaplan <kaplan at cert.at
> <mailto:kaplan at cert.at>> wrote:
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>     On Jan 12, 2014, at 7:32 PM, Aaron Zauner <azet at azet.org
>     <mailto:azet at azet.org>> wrote:
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>     > By the way, you should check out Juliens GitHub account too. It
>     has a lot of useful tools related to our topic that could be
>     useful: https://github.com/jvehent?tab=repositories
>     >
>     Just doing that right now. That's really fantastic! Congrats
>     Julien in case you are on this list.
>
>     This will really help in measuring the change to better crypto
>     settings.
>
>     a.
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