Bug#784153: don't use TLSv1 by default, use SSLv23

Tzafrir Cohen tzafrir at cohens.org.il
Mon May 4 16:41:50 UTC 2015


Hi,

On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 11:11:12AM -0400, Emmanuel Lepage wrote:

> Ring is not ready to replace SFLphone in Sid as we depend on
> some pjproject patches. One is to use GnuTLS instead of OpenSSL

Interesting.

> and the other to expose certificates and ciphers in the API. We
> use this to create a Firefox/Chrome like security asset evaluation
> (work in progress). We never had luck getting those kind of patches
> merged upstream, so for now we are using a static pjproject lib.

Please file bugs vs. the pjproject Debian package (be those wishlist
bugs).

I generally had better luck with them.

> 
> The problem with the old sflphone security features is that they
> are way too complicated for the user to configure. In the end this
> probably make the whole package less secure. This cannot be fixed
> and backported into Jessie, so dropping SSLv23 from the GUI is
> probably the least problematic option.
> 
> Patches:
> https://projects.savoirfairelinux.com/projects/ring-daemon/repository/revisions/master/show/contrib/src/pjproject

It would be nice if you could add some description somewhere.

E.g. Debian dep5 patches, git format-patch, or just some extra lines of
description before the diff.

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