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Date:      Thu, 13 Oct 2005 13:44:28 -0700
From:      Jacques Vidrine <jacques@vidrine.us>
To:        Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-05:21.openssl
Message-ID:  <47D785F8-E28E-4753-ABE9-8627107D9038@vidrine.us>
In-Reply-To: <20051012191019.GJ2482@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>
References:  <200510111202.j9BC2obf081876@freefall.freebsd.org> <434BCB75.2000402@iang.org> <B9EA75B5-B5AE-4164-A91E-061E5AECCC5B@vidrine.us> <20051012191019.GJ2482@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>

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On 2005-10-12, at 12:10 :19, Peter Jeremy wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-Oct-11 09:45:53 -0700, Jacques Vidrine wrote:
>> On Oct 11, 2005, at 7:25 AM, Ian G wrote:
>>> Isn't the workaround obviously to switch off V2?
>>
>> Yes.  Sorry that wasn't mentioned.
>
> That sounds like a good workaround.  How do I implement it?  I've
> looked through the documentation and can't find any reference to a
> runtime OpenSSL configuration file that would let me do this.

I'm not aware of a global option for OpenSSL, either.  Disabling  
SSLv2 would need to be handled by the application, i.e. turn off  
SSLv2 for each of your SSL/TLS applications.  Cheers,
-- 
Jacques Vidrine <jacques@vidrine.us>





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