[openssl-users] FIPS: SSL 3.0 now forbidden in latest NDCPP update

jonetsu jonetsu at teksavvy.com
Tue Apr 28 13:23:14 UTC 2015


> SSLv3 in the ciphersuite definition means it can be used in
> SSLv3 *and later*. A ciphersuite isn't defined once for SSLv3,
> and then again for TLS1.0, and again for TLS1.1 etc - its just
> defined once and is reused across multiple protocol versions.

Yes, this is what I basically understood.  What was lacking then in my
undestanding, is that :

% OPENSSL_FIPS=1 openssl ciphers -v

Will not output strictly according to FIPS.  Maybe there's no easy way to do
that when the definition of a cipher states otherwise.

Thanks.



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