[cabfpub] Ballot 108: Clarifying the scope of the baseline requirements

Geoff Keating geoffk at apple.com
Mon Jul 29 14:59:30 MST 2013


Kelvin said:

> I prefer to drop any mention of the MS or Netscape SGC OIDs. These OIDs have been obsolete for over a decade and have ceased to have any meaning on MS platforms since Windows 2000. 

Then on 29/07/2013, at 1:57 PM, Ryan Sleevi <sleevi at google.com> wrote:

> They're still respected (for better or worse) by Apple, NSS, and Android.

If I recall my 20th-century history, these were for upgrading from 40-bit to 128-bit symmetric crypto, right?

No recent Apple OS supports 40-bit crypto in TLS (at all---it doesn't have the code to do it).  The OS might have the OID number included for display purposes.

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