[Interest] Qt5 and libressl

[Thiago Macieira]

On Friday 13 November 2015 21:55:41 René J. V. Bertin wrote:
> Richard Moore wrote:
> > On 12 November 2015 at 20:14, Diego Iastrubni <diegoiast at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> So... the official statement from Qt is that elliptic curves is a ...
> >> "safe" encryption to be used in the wild...?
> > 
> > ​We provide facilities that let you choose which ciphersuites are enabled.
> > We also support plain text. ​
> 
> A question that came up in a parallel discussion: why does Qt still support
> SSL2 and SSL3, or why aren't the respective OPENSSL_NO_SSL* tokens defined
> by default?

Because there may be people with old (and insecure) protocols where this may 
be needed. We didn't remove the API.

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