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> You have much more context about your environment- you know what you need to connect to, what needs to connect to you, and what ciphers, key length, and other
by rlpb 3y ago
> You have much more context about your environment- you know what you need to connect to, what needs to connect to you, and what ciphers, key length, and other configuration that you must support. Therefore if you take all that into account you might be able to optimize for security by disabling compatibility options you don’t need.
As long as that's what you actually do. If instead you want a checklist to blindly execute to "harden" your system, then the grandparent commenter is correct: either your can accept that your distribution's defaults are actually good enough, or you're removing functionality such that you'll find a hurdle you've left for yourself sooner or later.