Opened 11 years ago
Closed 11 years ago
#27607 closed defect (bug) (invalid)
Can't access some WordPress.com blogs, after disabling RC4 and AES-128
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| Milestone: | Priority: | normal | |
| Severity: | normal | Version: | 3.8 |
| Component: | Security | Keywords: | |
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Description
First, this is no security issue as stated in that Security FAQ, since it does not involve instructions to "hack" a blog.
Steps to reproduce:
Follow the tipps by Martin Grässlin as stated here:
http://www.bitblokes.de/2013/09/security-tipp-von-mr-kwin-martin-graesslin-firefox-sicherer-machen/
that is, disabling RC4 and AES-128 keys in Firefox' about:config (Fx v26-v28). The problem occurs on Sabayon Linux 64Bit and Ubuntu.
$ uname -a Linux linux.local 3.13.0-sabayon #1 SMP Sun Mar 16 03:29:10 UTC 2014 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8600 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
Expected behaviour
WordPress.com delivers content with higher encryption transport activated.
Actual behaviour
Some WordPress.com blogs aren't reachable anymore. Surfing on them raises an page load error (Connection refused).
A reset to default values does not fix the issue. Only WordPress.com blogs are affected. However, after upgrading Firefox to v28 I can reach at least some WordPress.com blogs again.
I've already cleared cache and cookies with no effect.
This should be reported to WordPress.com: http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/.