[OSX-Users] Re: Warning: El Capitan Beta 3 release note for Apple Mail.app

Tim Chown tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Jul 10 09:38:03 BST 2015


> On 9 Jul 2015, at 16:39, Jules Field <Jules at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>> 
> smtp.ecs would offer an export-grade cipher, which OS X would refuse to use and then not opt to use something better. i *think* that's what was happening, none of the logs are detailed enough to show it well.
> 
> Now it only offers ciphers which OS X (and everyone else) are happy with.

BTW, I wonder if in hindsight this ties in with Apple fixing the Logjam issue with its 30th June patch?

https://blog.avira.com/logjam-vulnerability-threatens-thousands-of-https-websites-mail-servers/ <https://blog.avira.com/logjam-vulnerability-threatens-thousands-of-https-websites-mail-servers/>

If so, I guess Andy doesn’t need to submit anything.

Tim

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