TLS/SSL Hardening And Compatibility Report

This report gives general recommendations as to how to configure SSL/TLS in order to provide state of the art authentication and encryption. The options offered by SSL engines grew from the early days since Netscape developed SSL2.0. The introduction of TLS made matters more challenging as servers and clients offer different sets of available options depending on which SSL engine (OpenSSL, NSS, SCHANNEL, etc.) they use. Finding the middle ground has proven difficult especially as the supported protocols and cipher suites are mostly not documented. To make matters more complicated Browsers may not use all functionality offered by the SSL stack, this report will only list functionality used by current Browsers. This report provides an overview of the currently available TLS options across Servers and Clients and allows you to offer support for a wide variety of Browsers an offer "good enough" security.