On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 9:18 AM, li...@rhsoft.net <li...@rhsoft.net> wrote:

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> Am 29.05.2017 um 09:48 schrieb Niklas Keller:
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>> Morning,
>>
>> I hereby open the vote on the "Improved SSL / TLS constants" RFC.
>>
>> This RFC proposes to change PHP's TLS constants to sane values. This
>> change
>> has been avoided by the previous RFC for PHP 5.6 due to BC reasons. This
>> RFCs favors better security instead of backwards compatibility with
>> version
>> intolerant and out of date servers.
>>
>> You can find the full RFC here:
>> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/improved-tls-constants
>>
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> Make tls:// default to TLSv1.0 + TLSv1.1 + TLSv1.2
>
> this is nice for a limited timeframe but the wrong approach to begin with
> - it is *not* the business of PHP at all until *explicit* requested from
> the uselrand code to interfer with *anything* in context of the TLS
> handshake
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> it's the job of the underlying openssl library, how it is built and
> shipped by the distribution becaus ethey you support implicit TLS1.3 and a
> future TLS1.4, don't weaken things like https://fedoraproject.org/wiki
> /Changes/CryptoPolicy and respect san econfigured servers which are
> regulary checked with https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/
>
>
Once the TLS 1.3 support is added, it will be in it as well. I think we
should stay away from setting specific protocols and go just for min and
max which is the way that OpenSSL is going though.

Cheers

Jakub

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