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If you look at the ssllabs analysis, they already fail in IE 6 handshake simulation. Offhand I can't say if support for older browser is incompatible with more
by taneliv 12y ago
If you look at the ssllabs analysis, they already fail in IE 6 handshake simulation. Offhand I can't say if support for older browser is incompatible with more modern ciphers and protocols.
- edwintorok 12y agoThe mozilla wikipage on TLS configuration has good information on ciphersuites and supported browser: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9000235 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9000235 The intermediate suite (default) says: "Firefox 1, Chrome 1, IE 7, Opera 5 and Safari 1. " The "Old backward compatibility" has IE6, but it also has SSL3, which is really not recommended.
- brianwski 12y agoBrian from Backblaze here. Why do we get a bad grade for not talking with IE6? I'm honestly curious... I thought anybody who supported IE6 should be downgraded, because IE6 was end of lifed, inherently using it is a bad bad bad thing. It is literally safer to not use it than use it, right? I don't think it's even possible to run IE6 on Windows Vista or Windows 7 or Windows 8, but I'm not entirely sure of that.
- yuhong 12y agoYea, that is a false claim and not what OP means.
- yuhong 12y agoIt should not be incompatible. Servers will just select 3DES or RC4 suites for older browsers that only have these listed.