Gmail buries crypto zombies

Google's continuing its rolling deprecation of old crypto, this time for its SMTP in Gmail.

The Chocolate Factory posted this announcement that Gmail SMTP will cease to support the deprecated SSLv3 and RC4 within 30 days.

The notice says most organisations on Google Apps have long abandoned the two protocols, but if the zombies are still wandering around your system, there are instructions for updating to TLS.

“Some common systems that may still be using SSLv3: inbound/outbound gateways, third-party emailers, and systems using SMTP relay”, the post notes. ®