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authorAlessandro Ghedini <alessandro@ghedini.me>2015-08-01 00:38:10 +0200
committerNikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org>2015-08-01 14:22:33 +0200
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handshake: add FALLBACK_SCSV priority option
This allows clients to enable the TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV mechanism during the handshake, as defined in RFC7507.
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@@ -1207,6 +1207,12 @@ will enforce safe renegotiation. Clients and
servers will refuse to talk to an insecure peer. Currently this
causes interoperability problems, but is required for full protection.
+@item %FALLBACK_SCSV @tab
+will enable the use of the fallback signaling cipher suite value in the
+client hello. Note that this should be set only by applications that
+try to reconnect with a downgraded protocol version. See RFC7507 for
+details.
+
@item %VERIFY_ALLOW_SIGN_RSA_MD5 @tab
will allow RSA-MD5 signatures in certificate chains.