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by peterwwillis 4439 days ago
TLS 1.0 was created in 1999, and has approximately 97.7% website support worldwide. The only modern browser that doesn't support TLS 1.0 is IE6. Please, do the public a favor and remove the name "SSL" from your list.

Also, I get that you probably just found out what a cargo cult is, but there's really no purpose in telling people about the phrase; it doesn't help them stay more secure, and it's basically just pop psychology applied to technology. "Current guides for securing your TLS servers" would make a more accurate title.
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danimo 4439 days ago
About the Cargo Cult thing: Fair enough. I'm not a native speaker myself, but thought that it may be a well-enough-known idiom.

Anyway, SSL is still what people know it under (plus, according to Wikipedia, TLS support was only added in Java 7, and there are still many Java 6 setups around which have to put up with SSL 3). So I'll stick with SSL/TLS for the time being.

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puetzk 4437 days ago
Re: "Cargo Cult" as a well-enough-known idiom:

It's basically a shibboleth for "Are you a fan of Richard Feynman". I doubt very many people have actually heard of it directly, but his "Cargo Cult Science" commencement address (http://neurotheory.columbia.edu/~ken/cargo_cult.html) is moderately famous.

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schwarze_pest 4439 days ago
IE6 supports TLS 1.0
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hsivonen 4439 days ago
TLS 1.0 is not enabled by default in IE6, so for practical purposes, IE6 does not support TLS 1.0.
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