Update OpenSSL to support TLS 1.2
Posted: 2016/04/15 23:42:45
Hi everyone.
I (and I'm sure several others) are in a predicament caused by CentOS 5 and PayPal.
According to https://www.paypal-knowledge.com/infoce ... cale=en_US, "PayPal is updating its services to require TLS 1.2 for all HTTPS connections". This is great, except for those of us still using CentOS 5 because our repositories only have OpenSSL 0.9.8e which does not support TLS 1.2. Essentially, once June rolls around, we can no longer use PayPal.
The obvious answer is to update to CentOS 7, however we don't have that luxury until mid-November. There's nothing I can do about that.
I have read that it's possible to build OpenSSL from source and possibly have it work, but that could lead to disasters elsewhere in the OS. I'm not willing to take that risk.
My question is, will CentOS 5 receive an OpenSSL update before June that will add support for TLS 1.2? Support for CentOS 5 doesn't end until March 31st, 2017, so I'm hoping something can be done for those of us that have no other choice but use CentOS 5.
Thanks!
I (and I'm sure several others) are in a predicament caused by CentOS 5 and PayPal.
According to https://www.paypal-knowledge.com/infoce ... cale=en_US, "PayPal is updating its services to require TLS 1.2 for all HTTPS connections". This is great, except for those of us still using CentOS 5 because our repositories only have OpenSSL 0.9.8e which does not support TLS 1.2. Essentially, once June rolls around, we can no longer use PayPal.
The obvious answer is to update to CentOS 7, however we don't have that luxury until mid-November. There's nothing I can do about that.
I have read that it's possible to build OpenSSL from source and possibly have it work, but that could lead to disasters elsewhere in the OS. I'm not willing to take that risk.
My question is, will CentOS 5 receive an OpenSSL update before June that will add support for TLS 1.2? Support for CentOS 5 doesn't end until March 31st, 2017, so I'm hoping something can be done for those of us that have no other choice but use CentOS 5.
Thanks!