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How's My SSL? (howsmyssl.com)
4 points by zerognowl on Oct 24, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


It seems odd to say my SSL client is "bad" because it supports ciphers that are bad along with ciphers that are better. That will only be an issue if that's all the server supports, and they can't actually think that downgrading to plaintext in that situation would be "better", can they? (Then again maybe they can -- exim used to downgrade to plaintext if it didn't trust the cert...)


Agreed. The onus is not only on the user to respond to threat landscapes, but also on the site owners. Shunting all the responsibility to the site owner typically does not work in your favor.


And if the site owners are malicious or incompetent than even perfectly good TLS doesn't really do much for you...




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