Re: Fedora crypto policy vs the real world Was: available crypto policies

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On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 10:08:53AM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 10:28:22 -0400,
>  "Eric H. Christensen" <sparks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >Revise how?  RC4 should be dropped down to EXPORT status, IMO, but somehow lives on.
> 
> Didn't it regain some popularity as a mitigation for the Beast vulnerability?

Yes, and now that Beast is mitigated elsewhere...  The problem is that RC4 doesn't provide that much security, now.  It's 2014, if you are still using it you don't actually care about your users.

- -- Eric

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Eric "Sparks" Christensen
Red Hat, Inc - Product Security Team

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