[openssl-dev] Proposed cipher changes for post-1.0.2

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On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 01:50:07AM -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:

> > RC4 in LOW has a bit of pushback so far.  My cover for it is that the
> > IETF says "don't use it."  So I think saying "if you want it, say so" is
> > the way to go.
> 
> I think that's the correct position.  People who want to be able to
> negotiate a deprecated cipher should need to explicitly state that
> that's their intent.

I do:

	aNULL:-aNULL:ALL:!EXPORT:!LOW:+RC4:@STRENGTH

The proposal to now misclassify RC4 as LOW (lumped in with single
DES and similar) needlessly breaks this.

--
	Viktor.


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