Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by jwilk 2808 days ago
People also thought that there's no reason to remove SSLv2 from your server, and then the DROWN attack happened:

https://drownattack.com/

DROWN shows that merely supporting SSLv2 is a threat to modern servers and clients. It allows an attacker to decrypt modern TLS connections between up-to-date clients and servers by sending probes to a server that supports SSLv2 and uses the same private key.