[OpenIndiana-discuss] SSL 3 POODLE security bug

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 16 Oct 2014, Fred Kimball via openindiana-discuss wrote:

> A post in the Mozilla blog suggested to disable SSL by going to 
> about:config. There are 27 and several are disabled by default. I 
> toggled all of the others to False. Then I could not access the 
> Mozilla site. I had to make a payment and after filling out the 
> form, got an empty cart. I guessed and toggled

The article you need to read is at 
"https://scotthelme.co.uk/sslv3-goes-to-the-dogs-poodle-kills-off-protocol/"

It is remarkable that Citibank still only supports SSL 3.

Bob
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