FreeBSD Forum access problem (was Re: Endless Data Loss)

[jungle Boogie]

On 26 July 2015 at 06:58, Ian Smith <smithi at nimnet.asn.au> wrote:
> In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 581, Issue 7, Message: 9
> On Sat, 25 Jul 2015 20:03:43 +0200 Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:
>  > On Sat, 25 Jul 2015 09:23:51 -0700, jungle Boogie wrote:
>  > > On 25 July 2015 at 06:51, Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:
>  > > > I've tried back and forth with Opera (version 11.50/1074 here).
>  > > > From "about:config" with the search terms "tls" and "ssl" and
>  > > > through Tools -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Security... I just
>  > > > keep getting this "helpful" message:
>  > > >
>  > > >         https://forums.freebsd.org/
>  > > >
>  > > >         Error
>  > > >
>  > > >         Could not connect to remote server
>  > > >         Check that the address is spelled correctly,
>  > > >         or try searching for the site.
>  > >
>  > >
>  > > Can you access https://www.freebsd.org/ ?
>  >
>  > Yes, that page never stopped working.
>  >
>  > > Both have a preferred cipher of TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
>  >
>  > Interesting... so what's the significant difference here?
>
> That's not the problem.  The problem with the forums site is that it no
> longer allows connections using SSLv3 or TLS 1.0 .. it requires at least
> TLS 1.1 now, and might later accept only TLS 1.2, even just for reading.
>

Ah, that's right. Sorry to have led Polytropon down the wrong path!

> Gory details .. long thread that wanders off into other issues later:
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/2015-May/008350.html
>
> cheers, Ian



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