Encryption – Please Keep Your Software Current

     After performing upgrades here, I am getting many reports of people not being able to connect to mail.eskimo.com or to a shell server because of TLS or SSL negotiations failing.

     This is caused because OLD encryption protocols which have been compromised have been eliminated from the newest software on this end and replaced with newer encryption protocols.  If your software has ONLY the OLD protocols, it will fail to connect.

     Before calling or initiating a ticket, please be sure that your software is completely up to date.  On a Mac, pull down the Mac Apple and choose Update Software and let it run to completion.  On Windows use the Check for Updates function and install any outstanding updates.  On Linux, as root, type: “apt update; apt full-upgrade; apt autoremove –purge” (without the quotations).  Answer questions regarding restarting services with a y enter.