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Re:Why SSL was renamed to TLS in late 90s (2014) by lxgr on Monday June 16, 2025 @02:07PM (#44291890)
Bob's list of supported protocols is an input into the (authenticated) final handshake message, and that authentication failing will prevent the connection from being considered successfully established.

If the "negotiated" cipher suite is weak enough to allow real-time impersonation of Bob, though, pre-1.3 versions are still vulnerable; that's another reason not to keep insecure cipher suites around in a TLS config.

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