[HTTPS-Everywhere] TLS Vulnerability

Peter Eckersley pde at eff.org
Tue Sep 20 14:10:45 PDT 2011


Until Firefox supports TLS 1.1 or 1.2, I'm afraid this warning is
applicable to all HTTPS visited :(

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=565047
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=565047

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 03:38:36PM -0400, Colonel Graff wrote:
> Naturally ANY thing we invent will be severely flawed but given this:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/19/beast_exploits_paypal_ssl/
> 
> Is there anyway for HTTPS to warn users when it detects TLS 1.0 or SSL 2.0
> being used? Preventing the use of the website isn't a good idea but
> obviously transparency is the goal and you'd think that warning users that
> their connection could quite possibly be intercepted and decrypted at a
> later date would meet that goal.

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