We need to talk about Session Tickets

More specifically, TLS 1.2 Session Tickets. Session Tickets, specified in RFC 5077, are a technique to resume TLS sessions by storing key material encrypted on the clients. In TLS 1.2 they speed up the handshake from two to one round-trips. Unfortunately, a combination of deployment realities and...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : apache2-mod_nss (SUSE-SU-2016:2396-1) (POODLE)

This update provides apache2-modnss 1.0.14, which brings several fixes and enhancements : - Fix OpenSSL ciphers stopped parsing at +. CVE-2016-3099 - Created valgrind suppression files to ease debugging. - Implement SSLPPTYPEFILTER to call executables to get the key password pins. - Improvements ...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: nss and nspr security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Updated nss and nspr packages that fix multiple security issues, several bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores,...