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1492
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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 The SSL protocol is now 18 years old, and has been superseded by the more secure TLS(Transport Layer Security)....
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Chris_Bryant
Explorer II
Oct 21, 2014
FWIW, using Debian with a KDE desktop, I right click on the start menu, choose edit applications, drill down to Google Chrome, and add the --ssl-version-min=tls1 in the command, which on mine is /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable %U --ssl-version-min=tls1
I'll boot one of my Ubuntu boxes in to the default desktop to see how to edit there, if needed.

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