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They have to, because many sites don't support any PFS ciphersuites. For instance, banks. https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.bankofamerica.com
by harshreality 13y ago
They have to, because many sites don't support any PFS ciphersuites. For instance, banks.
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.bankofamerica.com&s=171.161.207.100 https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.bankofame...
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=chaseonline.chase.com https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=chaseonline.c...
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=online.citibank.com https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=online.citiba...
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=us.hsbc.com&s=161.113.4.5 https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=us.hsbc.com&s...
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=online.wellsfargo.com&s=159.45.2.70 https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=online.wellsf...
Ideally, Microsoft, Google, Apple, and Firefox would gang up and all disable ciphersuites lacking DHE/ECDHE in their current browsers. Short of that, one browser disabling them would be viewed as "broken" and would lose marketshare.
- hrjet 13y agoWell, the browsers could disable non PFS ciphers by default. When a site doesn't match any PFS cipher list, show a pop-up with a way to add an exception for the site. Much more graceful than a complete switch-over and doesn't require co-ordination from other vendors.