Heho,

We did some measurements on this recently, see: 
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/atc22-holzbauer.pdf

 

At the moment, I’d say that you still lose _some_ destinations (and delivering 
MTAs) by forcing TLS (~10% of smaller providers). This is _any_ TLS; Numbers 
for disabling 1.0/1.1 will look worse than those 10%, even though we did not 
test that.

 

The methodology we use should be easily adjustable to also test for specific 
version support; However, recruiting a wide sample of people will be difficult. 
What you _could_ do as a large ESP is configuring multiple MXes with the same 
priority and different settings and run a large scale study that way about 
MTA’s preferences without impacting mail delivery. If you are willing to give 
that a shot, I’d be _very_ interested in collaborating.

 

Side note: I recently ran into a security research institute with whom I could 
not agree on ciphers with the OpenSMTPd default cipher list on my side… their 
choices were just a tad dusty…

 

With best regards,

Tobias 

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