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<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">What is Transport Layer Security protocol?</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">In short it is an important piece of security enabling privacy and protection for data transmitted between client / server applications.  TLS version 1.0 was introduced in 1999 and
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<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">What about proxy or proxy services?</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">  </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">If you use a proxy service like EZProxy or WAM you will need to check with your proxy provider or IT staff to make sure your proxy uses TLS v1.2 when communicating with our websites.
  We understand many of our customers use EZproxy and WAM and as such we’ve already communicated this change with OCLC and hereby communicate it to III.  They have updated the stanza for SpringerLink stating EZproxy version 6.1.16 or later is required to proxy
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">OCLC advised us that the only version of EZproxy that they still support that is not compliant with TLS v1.2 is version 6.0.8.  If you are running EZproxy locally that is older than
 version 6.1.16 it may not work to proxy on TLS v1.2.  Please contact OCLC for further information if either of these scenarios apply to you.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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 the development of new areas of knowledge and making ideas and information accessible around the world. We provide the best possible service to the whole research community.</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Divan, Linda A<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, May 01, 2018 10:36 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Diane Westerfield<br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:eril-l@lists.eril-l.org">eril-l@lists.eril-l.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Eril-l] Springer and WAM proxy woes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Every day I check just to see if they might have resolved the problem but not told us - and today it seems to be working as expected! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Linda Divan<br>
Library Systems Co-ordinator<br>
Centennial Library<br>
Cedarville University<br>
251 N. Main St.<br>
Cedarville, OH  45314<br>
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937-766-7843<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 6:39 PM, Diane Westerfield <<a href="mailto:dwesterfield@coloradocollege.edu" target="_blank">dwesterfield@coloradocollege.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">If you’re on Millennium or Sierra with WAM Proxy, you may want to take a look at Springer. We’re getting a redirect error on proxied
 links. With journals you can get a little further in than ebooks but still can’t get to articles. We started seeing this last week. Innovative has told us they’ve heard a number of complaints from customers, but it’s on Springer’s end. If you’re experiencing
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Diane Westerfield, Electronic Resources & Serials Librarian</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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