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1492
Moderator
Oct 18, 2014

Protecting Your Browser Against The HTTPS SSL Flaw

Google just recently revealed a flaw in SSL 3.0 used in HTTPS to secure web connections. The SSL protocol is now 18 years old, and has been superseded by the more secure TLS(Transport Layer Security)....
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VE3ESN
Explorer
Oct 21, 2014
Bill.Satellite wrote:
I checked and Firefox has a quick add-on that you can download and it kills the SSL3 process. You can reinstate it as necessary if you come upon a site you trust and you can't access without SSL3.
Firefox addon


Thanks for the Firefox add-on Bill.Satellite and of course thanks to 1492 for alerting me/us to the problem. You guys are great!

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