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Re: GSKit SSL Handshake error 406 errno 3406

On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 3:22 PM Jack Woehr <jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Correctly configured clients will always try the most modern first.
I'd guess (there are certainly more expert individuals than myself)
there's some misconfig on their end.
The only risk you incur, I believe, is w/r/t the client for whom you are
adding the weaker cipher.
Because the harder ciphers are tried first before dropping back.
*vide supra *the article I linked from Wikipedia.


And if *they *are the server side, it's on *them* that you can use a weaker
cipher.

If *they *want security, they should disallow that cipher.


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