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A Final Farewell To TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1?

Chrome and Firefox push for better security

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The Internet is often a place where you set something up, and then just forget about. But what happens when the Internet moves on, and where things are defined as insecure? Well, Chrome and Firefox wants to change that, and bring up standards related to SSL and TLS, especially in making sure that every site identities itself. Putting a digital certificate on a site is hardly the most dawnting thing for an organisation to do. So the Internet was warned back in January that Firefox was aiming to dump TLS 1.0 and 1.1 [here]:

In the above article a simple test generated:

  • Google Chrome 80 states: “Your connection to this site is not fully secure. This site uses an outdated security configuration.”
  • Firefox 72 warns: “Connection not secure. This page uses weak encryption.”
  • Safari 12.1 displays no warning and says: “Safari is using an encrypted connection.”
  • Microsoft Edge Chromium displays no warning and says: “Connection is secure.”
  • Microsoft IE 11 displays no warning and says: “This…

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Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE
ASecuritySite: When Bob Met Alice

Professor of Cryptography. Serial innovator. Believer in fairness, justice & freedom. Based in Edinburgh. Old World Breaker. New World Creator. Building trust.