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Re:Why SSL was renamed to TLS in late 90s (2014) by matthewdgreen on Monday June 16, 2025 @11:01AM (#44290257)
This isn't really accurate historically. TLS has both ciphersuite and version negotiation. Logjam (2015) [1] was a downgrade attack on the former that's now fixed, but is an extension of an attack that was first noticed way back in 1996 [2]. Similar problems occurred with the FREAK attack, though that was actually a client vulnerability. TLS 1.3 goes out of its way to fix all of this using a better negotiation mechanism, and by reducing agility.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logjam_(computer_security) [2] https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedin...

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