Comment by jof
1 day ago
SSL was developed by Netscape in the 90s and evolved into TLS. Netscape Navigator essentially evolved into Mozilla.
"They've" been at it from the beginning, so it somehow seems understandable that Mozilla has a lot of "SSL" momentum or carryover.
actually we wrote this many years ago and left mozilla ans nobody is really updating it other than adding new configs. its not super useful anymore :)
at the time it made sense to us because you couldnt have good SSL configuration everywhere (it was not well supported) so we had trade-offs and created tiers of configs. We barely had TLS coming out, so SSL eas still the name of the game.
nowaday just use the latest TLS defaults and you're golden.