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Re: Time to deprecate TLS 1.0 and 1.1 ?

From: Demi Marie Obenour <demiobenour_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2025 13:47:27 -0400

On 7/11/25 06:10, Daniel Stenberg via curl-library wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Jul 2025, Timothe Litt via curl-library wrote:
>
>> bricking hardware by making it impossible to access them will not make you
>> any friends....
>
> First, if this change would *brick* a device that would be entirely because of
> stupid engineering and not because of curl.
>
> Then, I would to just say that unless these companies are paying someone for
> curl, we have no particular responsibilities whatsoever towards them and they
> should just be happy what we ship code they can use.

I think it is more likely that it would prevent various third-party tools
from being able to access the devices. Vendors will simply not update curl
in their clients, but third-party tools are usually maintained by
people who are more responsible.
-- 
Sincerely,
Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers)




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