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authorNikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org>2018-07-13 20:22:29 +0200
committerNikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org>2018-07-13 20:22:29 +0200
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were insufficient when the attacker could access the cache and perform chosen-
plaintext. This affected the legacy CBC ciphersuites.
+** The ciphers utilizing HMAC-SHA384 and SHA256 have been removed from the default
+ priority strings. They are not necessary for compatibility or other purpose and
+ provide no advantage over their SHA1 counter-parts, as they all depend on the legacy
+ TLS CBC block mode.
+
** API and ABI modifications:
No changes since last version.