1--- 2c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. 3SPDX-License-Identifier: curl 4Long: ssl-allow-beast 5Help: Allow security flaw to improve interop 6Protocols: TLS 7Added: 7.25.0 8Category: tls 9Multi: boolean 10See-also: 11 - proxy-ssl-allow-beast 12 - insecure 13Example: 14 - --ssl-allow-beast $URL 15--- 16 17# `--ssl-allow-beast` 18 19Do not work around a security flaw in the TLS1.0 protocol known as BEAST. If 20this option is not used, the TLS layer may use workarounds known to cause 21interoperability problems with some older server implementations. 22 23This option only changes how curl does TLS 1.0 and has no effect on later TLS 24versions. 25 26**WARNING**: this option loosens the TLS security, and by using this flag you 27ask for exactly that. 28
