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All good changes. I'd also like to see the Handshake Simulation improved by splitting ancient clients out into their own section. Call it Obsolete or Legacy.
by Panino 10y ago
All good changes.
I'd also like to see the Handshake Simulation improved by splitting ancient clients out into their own section. Call it Obsolete or Legacy. Populate it with all the clients that don't support ECDHE or TLS 1.2. With that change, people won't feel pressured to support IE6 on Windows XP or other such combos. In the real world, a big majority of TLS 1.0 traffic is either 1) unknown web crawlers that don't matter, or 2) zombies running on ancient hacked machines looking to replicate. It's mostly unwanted traffic.
You might say it does no harm to enable connections to IE6 on Windows XP, but I can think of two reasons why it does: First, enabling more ciphersuites in OpenSSL (or other) increases your attack surface, and as for me, I'm way more interested in reducing my attack surface than in talking to a computer that was last updated in 2001. Second, these XP machines will hang around the Internet so long as they're useful. We cancel the driving priveleges of drunk and senile people, and we should do the same at the protocol level for XP machines.
And anyway, it's incoherent to mark an IE6/XP connection failure in red (which means bad), while simultaneosly saying that SSL3 is bad. Some cruft has built up over the years, and it needs to be periodically removed.