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Disable SSLv3 support for Apache

In case you haven’t disabled support for SSLv3 for Apache yet – do so now! You can easily disable SSLv3 using your Apache configuration httpd.conf using the option -SSLv3:

SSLHonorCipherOrder on
SSLProtocol -ALL -SSLv3 +TLSv1 +TLSv1.1 +TLSv1.2
SSLCipherSuite ECDH+AESGCM:DH+AESGCM:ECDH+AES256:DH+AES256:ECDH+AES128:DH+AES:ECDH+3DES:DH+3DES:RSA+AES:RSA+3DES:!aNULL:!MD5:!DSS

As always, make sure to restart Apache afterwards. Note that depending on your setup you might need to set the list of supported protocols for each vhost entry separately.

Test your configuration

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