1 Long: ssl-allow-beast 2 Help: Allow security flaw to improve interop 3 Added: 7.25.0 4 --- 5 This option tells curl to not work around a security flaw in the SSL3 and 6 TLS1.0 protocols known as BEAST. If this option isn't used, the SSL layer may 7 use workarounds known to cause interoperability problems with some older SSL 8 implementations. WARNING: this option loosens the SSL security, and by using 9 this flag you ask for exactly that. 10