Commit 8208dd3b authored by Daniel Stenberg's avatar Daniel Stenberg
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SSL-PROBLEMS: mention WinSSL problems in WinXP

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@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ CA bundle missing intermediate certificates
  problems if your CA cert does not have the certificates for the
  intermediates in the whole trust chain.

SSL version
Protocol version

  Some broken servers fail to support the protocol negotiation properly that
  SSL servers are supposed to handle. This may cause the connection to fail
@@ -36,7 +36,9 @@ SSL version
  An additional complication can be that modern SSL libraries sometimes are
  built with support for older SSL and TLS versions disabled!

SSL ciphers
  All versions of SSL are considered insecure and should be avoided. Use TLS.

Ciphers

  Clients give servers a list of ciphers to select from. If the list doesn't
  include any ciphers the server wants/can use, the connection handshake
@@ -51,6 +53,10 @@ SSL ciphers
  Note that these weak ciphers are identified as flawed. For example, this
  includes symmetric ciphers with less than 128 bit keys and RC4.

  WinSSL in Windows XP is not able to connect to servers that no longer
  support the legacy handshakes and algorithms used by those versions, so we
  advice against building curl to use WinSSL on really old Windows versions.

  References:

  https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-popov-tls-prohibiting-rc4-01