Questions tagged [tls-downgrade]
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Should I use SSL/TLS renegotiation?
Should I use SSL/TLS renegotiation? In other words: does SSL/TLS renegotiation enhance or weaken the security?
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Is TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV useless if only TLS (1.0, 1.1, 1.2) is supported?
Ssllabs does not give A+ (highest) rating if the server does not support TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV to prevent downgrade attack. But I am wondering, is it really any useful if the server legitimately provide ...
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TLS downgrade attacks
I'm currently looking at e-mail security and wondered whether server to server e-mail communication that enforces TLS, will prevent the risk of TLS downgrade attacks?
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Why TLS does not sign ciphersuite?
TLS negotiates a ciphersuite and TLS version to use during handshake. It confirms the handshake was not tampered with and the ciphersuite and TLS version were not downgraded using the negotiated ...
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SSL - Does Change_cipher protects against downgrade ?
An excerpt of one of my courses about SSL/TLS says the following,
This excerpt is just after the Handshake finish phase of SSL (with change_cipher_spec and finished messages).
Role of the finish ...