Sunday, January 22, 2023

Deprecated SSL/TLS version warning from NIC-CERT - action taken on cloudflare

Copy-pasting from an email exchange after one of our institutions received an email saying that some/all of their domains had deprecated versions of TLS - 

There are pros and cons for disabling these.

1. You can see which clients will be affected by looking at the last answer at

2. If you log in to your cloudflare dashboard, click on your domain, then SSL/TLS --> Overview on the left hand pane, you can find a percentage of users still using TLS 1.0 etc.

3. The security risk is that the users who use TLS 1.0 etc have a finite risk of being tricked into going to some other site masquerading as our site, since the certificate is vulnerable, and then stealing the data they send to our site. Example attacks are at
https://www.acunetix.com/blog/articles/tls-vulnerabilities-attacks-final-part/

4. If you want to disable TLS 1.0 and 1.1, you can do it from your cloudflare dashboard, click on the relevant website, go to SSL/TLS --> Edge Certificates and choose minimum TLS version to be 1.2
 
 

They have now moved to a higher min TLS version.


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