This POODLE Bites: Exploiting The SSL 3.0 Fallback

Introduction SSL 3.0 RFC6101 is an obsolete and insecure protocol. While for most practical purposes it has been replaced by its successors TLS 1.0 RFC2246, TLS 1.1 RFC4346, and TLS 1.2 RFC5246, many TLS implementations remain backwards­compatible with SSL 3.0 to interoperate with legacy systems ...