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   mutazilah@gmail.com to Elijah Stone   
   Re: TLS 1.0   
   19 Jun 21 23:34:05   
   
   From: muta...@gmail.com   
      
   On Sunday, June 20, 2021 at 4:17:51 PM UTC+10, Elijah Stone wrote:   
      
   > On Sat, 19 Jun 2021, muta...@gmail.com wrote:   
   > >> There are very sound reasons to disallow the use of TLS 1.0 entirely.   
   > >> Namely: downgrade attacks. There is no conspiracy.   
   > >   
   > > What downgrade attack are you talking about when a browser is used   
   > > internally within a company?   
      
   > A browser has no way of distinguishing a corporate-internal website and a   
   > public one.   
      
   Can't that be done at the corporation level - convert external   
   traffic into TLS 1.2 using Squid?   
      
   If it can be done, then shouldn't the browser give people the   
   option to turn on TLS 1.0 because the company is protecting   
   them?   
      
   Thanks. Paul.   
      
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