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by jerf 4653 days ago
There's been a lot of recent flux in what the consensus on "best config for security" even is in the past six months. We went through a phase where RC4 was the recommended cipher, now we're mostly coming around to it being a bad idea, for instance, and that's still a thing in progress rather than totally done.
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Seems like someone should invent a way to easily get automatic updates to your ssl config in apache and/or nginx.

I know I'm not the only one with half a dozen, a dozen, or dozens of web servers I am responsible for -- who realistically isn't going to keep track of what the current consensus is and go updating the ssl configuration even every six months.

That would be Puppet, Chef, etc.