Am Samstag 28 August 2010 schrieb Wan-Teh Chang:
> SSL 2.0 is an old and insecure protocol.  No products
> should be using SSL 2.0 today.  But removing the SSL
> 2.0 code from NSS has one major benefit to the continual
> development of NSS's SSL library: it'll make the code
> base easier to maintain.

May I make a provocative enhancement proposal? Just remove SSLv3 altogether 
with it.

The reason are bugs like this:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=450280

I think this is unfixable as long as one wants to support SSLv3 (see comment 
#15), though when using SNI, this is imho a rather serious issue.

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