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authorNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2014-10-15 11:50:05 -0400
committerNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2014-10-15 11:50:05 -0400
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Disable SSLv3 unconditionally. Closes ticket 13426.
The POODLE attack doesn't affect Tor, but there's no reason to tempt fate: SSLv3 isn't going to get any better.
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+ o Major security fixes:
+ - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with
+ Tor today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off
+ support for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.