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 19This option tells curl to not work around a security flaw in the SSL3 and 20TLS1.0 protocols known as BEAST. If this option is not used, the SSL layer may 21use workarounds known to cause interoperability problems with some older SSL 22implementations. 23 24**WARNING**: this option loosens the SSL security, and by using this flag you 25ask for exactly that. 26