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  1. o Major features:
  2. - Servers can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when
  3. available and appropriate. These ciphersuites, when used with
  4. the P-256 elliptic curve, let us negotiate forward-secure TLS
  5. secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
  6. previous use of Diffie Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime.
  7. Enabling these ciphers was a little tricky, since for a long
  8. time, clients had been claiming to support them without
  9. actually doing so, in order to foil fingerprinting. But with
  10. the client-side implementation of proposal 198 in
  11. 0.2.3.17-beta, clients can now match the ciphers from recent
  12. firefox versions *and* list the ciphers they actually mean, so
  13. servers can believe such clients when they advertise ECDHE
  14. support in their TLS ClientHello messages.
  15. This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
  16. and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
  17. with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
  18. "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
  19. Implements the server side of proposal 198; closes ticket
  20. 7200.