[Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#766297: Bug#766297: openssl s_client no longer recognizes -ssl3 option

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2014-10-22 18:30:04 +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:19:44AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > > s_client is a debug tool
> > 
> > Yes, a debug tool (or test tool), and that's why the -ssl3 option
> > is useful in this particular case.
> 
> It's non-obvious to have to library not support SSL v3 but have
> the tools still support it.

The library could still support SSL v3. I don't know how the API
is designed, but I suppose that the protocol could be turned off
by default, so that it would not be used unless the application
requests it explicitly.

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