[Info-vax] OpenSSL CSWS-2.2-1

[Neil Rieck]

Strictly as an emergency backup plan, I've been working on trial to replace CSWS-2.2-1 with WASD-11.

For example, if my ~1,200 clients begin to use new browsers next year, they might not be able to connect to my current system so I have got to do something now. But that got me thinking about another problem: we are receiving B2B SOAP transactions from a system in Montreal (another company) which currently relies on SSLv3. If I upgrade my web-server to something that doesn't offer SSLv3 (because it hasn't been compiled into Apache's mod_ssl, or I've linked WASD to an SSL library that is too restrictive) then I'm not going to be able to receive those B2B SOAP connections.

After a restless night of sleep it occurred to me that many other systems are also going to run into this situation but no one seems to be talking about it (at least not in the way they talked about Y2K). So I have decided to call this problem "Y2K20" and have placed some preliminary notes here:

http://neilrieck.net/docs/calendar_time_y2k_etc.html#y2k20

Neil Rieck
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
http://neilrieck.net