SSL - what's the reason for disabling SSL v2 support?
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I have noticed many guides saying you should disable the SSL v2 support while setting up SSL on a web server. I can't understand the reason. Can somebody tell me why, please?
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Wikipedia: SSL 2.0 is flawed in a variety of ways:1 Identical cryptographic keys are used for message authentication and encryption. SSL 2.0 has a weak MAC construction that uses the MD5 hash function with a secret prefix, making it vulnerable to le…
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