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diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/ssl-allow-beast.d b/docs/cmdline-opts/ssl-allow-beast.d new file mode 100644 index 000000000..973fcd451 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/ssl-allow-beast.d @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Long: ssl-allow-beast +Help: Allow security flaw to improve interop +Added: 7.25.0 +--- +This option tells curl to not work around a security flaw in the SSL3 and +TLS1.0 protocols known as BEAST. If this option isn't used, the SSL layer may +use workarounds known to cause interoperability problems with some older SSL +implementations. WARNING: this option loosens the SSL security, and by using +this flag you ask for exactly that. |