1 Long: ssl-allow-beast 2 Help: Allow security flaw to improve interop 3 Added: 7.25.0 4 Category: tls 5 --- 6 This option tells curl to not work around a security flaw in the SSL3 and 7 TLS1.0 protocols known as BEAST. If this option isn't used, the SSL layer may 8 use workarounds known to cause interoperability problems with some older SSL 9 implementations. WARNING: this option loosens the SSL security, and by using 10 this flag you ask for exactly that. 11