[openssl-dev] FW: RFC 7465 on Prohibiting RC4 Cipher Suites

[Salz, Rich]

Part of my reasoning for wanting to move RC4 to LOW in master, which will not be released until the end of 2015.

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Subject: RFC 7465 on Prohibiting RC4 Cipher Suites

A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries.

        
        RFC 7465

        Title:      Prohibiting RC4 Cipher Suites 
        Author:     A. Popov
        Status:     Standards Track
        Stream:     IETF
        Date:       February 2015
        Mailbox:    andreipo at microsoft.com
        Pages:      6
        Characters: 8397
        Updates:    RFC 5246, RFC 4346, RFC 2246

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-tls-prohibiting-rc4-01.txt

        URL:        https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7465

This document requires that Transport Layer Security (TLS) clients and servers never negotiate the use of RC4 cipher suites when they establish connections.  This applies to all TLS versions.  This document updates RFCs 5246, 4346, and 2246.

This document is a product of the Transport Layer Security Working Group of the IETF.

This is now a Proposed Standard.

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