1 c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. 2 SPDX-License-Identifier: curl 3 Long: ssl-allow-beast 4 Help: Allow security flaw to improve interop 5 Added: 7.25.0 6 Category: tls 7 Example: --ssl-allow-beast $URL 8 See-also: proxy-ssl-allow-beast insecure 9 Multi: boolean 10 --- 11 This option tells curl to not work around a security flaw in the SSL3 and 12 TLS1.0 protocols known as BEAST. If this option is not used, the SSL layer 13 may use workarounds known to cause interoperability problems with some older 14 SSL implementations. 15 16 **WARNING**: this option loosens the SSL security, and by using this flag you 17 ask for exactly that. 18