[CentOS] TLSv1.3 support?

Thu May 11 20:39:44 UTC 2017
John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>

On 5/11/2017 1:23 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 5/11/2017 1:13 PM, Walter H. wrote:
>>
>> will the next update of CentOS 6 (6.10) have TLSv1.3 support? 
>
>
> A) Ask Red Hat, I see no date for RHEL 6 update 10 yet.   update 9 
> released 6 or 8 weeks ago, so its likely 3-4 months before update 10 
> releases.
>
> B) afaik, TLS v1.3 hasn't even been ratified yet, its still a draft
>
> C) openssl v.1.1.1 which is supposed to support TLS v1.3(draft) isn't 
> finished yet, either, its still a -dev release. 


D)  RHEL 6 is, as of yesterday, in "production 3" [*], where only 
critical fixes and serious security exposures will be fixed.    I see 
this as pretty unlikely they'd upgrade openssl



[*] 
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.9_Release_Notes/chap-Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-6.9_Release_Notes-Overview.html


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