Did HP discontinu​e TLS 1.2 on ePrint

I have users that can't send to ePrint from the company e-mail anymore, it works from their private Gmail, Live-mail, etc.
I have talked to websence and they say:
Seems there is a problem on recipient side as by default we would attempt to use TLS 1.2 however they seem not to support that - see below. I am afraid unless recipient will check their logs its not going to be an easy thing to confirm that. Could you please get in touch with them and ask to verify?
Error log:
Receiving system returned "Deferred: 403 4.7.0 TLS handshake failed." status 4.0.0, "Transient failure"

Hi @Stine_SKDK ,
I have brought your issue to the attention of an appropriate team within HP. They will likely request information from you in order to look up your case details or product serial number. Please look for a private message from an identified HP contact. Additionally, keep in mind not to publically post ( serial numbers and case details).
If you are unfamiliar with how the Forum's private message capability works, you can learn about that here.
Regards,
George
I work for HP

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    I've seen in some benchmarks that an OC'd 920 is not so dissimilar to an OC'd 3770K. The latter is faster, but it isn't a huge difference. The larger question still remains - will any/all of these upgrades yield large performance gains and solve all/a higher percentage of my problems? Or do I have a decent sweet spot of a system and should wait for the software (e.g. MPE evolution in CS7-8) to catch up and take better advantage of what I have? Like I said from doing some rudimentary performance monitoring, I'm not seeing a pegged CPU (just a brief spike here/there), I'm not seeing disk transfer at capacity (although 1 disk has a slightly > 1 queue length at times), I'm not seeing in all cases over-utilization of memory, etc. (except higher RAM usage is seen albeit staggered for large JPEG time-lapse sequences, but I see choppiness well before RAM usage gets to 10 GB).
     VIDEO: You correctly point out that the GTX 680 shows in the MPE graph on the PPBM5 website much better results than other cards. But keep in mind that most 680's are used in new systems, often with the latest CPU's and fast memory. I'm convinced that a 680 is not noticeably faster than a 580, because they have the same memory bandwidth, but it looks that way because they are often accompanied by hexa core i7-39xx CPU's with large amounts of memory.  [Luke] Good point - potentially further evidence that the video card doesn't make a big difference? At least not enought to justify 5x the cost (e.g. $500 680 vs. $100 450).  This would be consistnet with what Studio 1 Productions has seen. The GTS 450 has a memory bandwidth of 86 GB/s, the 660 Ti has 144.2 GB/s, so the latter is significantly faster as you have shown in some of your tests. [Luke] The only test I would characterize closer to having a significant increase using the 660 would be exporting large JPEG time-lapses to H.264, where it was a good 27% faster. The rest seemed more marginal or did not change. TESTING: You don't mention to what format you exported and with what resolution and framerate. Hardware MPE will come into play when you have rescaling, frame blending, blurring and stuff like that occurring. If you export to the same frame size and frame rate as your source and no blurring occurs, then exporting is purely a CPU matter and the video card has no impact at all. [Luke] See above - H.264, 1080p @23.9x fps. General remarks: I personally consider your 5 disk raid0 setup as pretty risky. You have multiplied the risk of losing all data by a factor 5!. You have no redundancy at all. Even though it is fast, I expect your sustained transfer rates are less than 450 MB/s and when using a 9 clip split screen, it may be too slow with the limited memory and the old CPU you have. You have effectively one single volume for video related editing (apart from the OS disk) and while that makes for easy administration, it still entails the drawbacks of the half-duplex connection of SATA. It might be better to add a couple of HDD's in raid0 for media cache, previews and exports to avoid that limitation. You can always carry those to a new system. [Luke] Yes there is a higher level of risk, but with backups every 30 minutes during project work I yield cheap/easy perf gains for the cost of--at most--30 minutes of work. I've lost no work in the last 4 years, 1 drive failed once while on vacation and I replaced it easily. Anyway backup/data integrity is a different issue separate from performance which I'd like to focus on in this context.
    I get ~420MB/s read with this array (mostly older, blue WD drives and Deskstars). I'm running out of space, so I just ordered 3 x 2 TB WD black drives to replace this with, expecting probably a similar transfer rate. Again though I'm not necessarily seeing disk being a bottleneck in perf mon aside from one disk who's queue length sometimes goes over 1, so we'll see if the newer black drives help.
    I have ordered 2x256 SATA III SSDs to put min my time-lapses on as having them on my current primary SSD seemed to help in some cases.
     Sorry to be so harsh. [Luke] No worries, harsh is OK but I'm still not seeing a clear solution to some of my issues and I'm still not convinced a new system - short of a top-of-the-line SB or Xeon system (both of which are very $$) will be worth the upgrade. When 5 years had passed between my current system and my 2004 system, I feel like the upgrades were much more significant especially for bang/$.
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