[Cryptography] [cryptography] NIST Workshop on Elliptic Curve Cryptography Standards

John Levine johnl at iecc.com
Sat May 16 20:18:00 EDT 2015


>> What?  Web servers and browsers have supported SNI for years.  If
>> you're worried about software so old that it doesn't, you're talking
>> about Windows XP and Safari 3.0.
>
>And XP's end of life was when? I'll save you looking it up: April
>2014. Apparently "so old" is 1 year! Assuming, of course, as we know
>didn't happen, everyone believed the end of life and stopped using XP.

Long before that the usual advice in the web world was to forget about
XP and IE 6.  The number of people using it was too small to be
worth worrying about, and if they're that out of date, they're
likely not users you care about.

R's,
John





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