Re: Enabling ECDHE ciphers

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Re the version of OpenSSL, I reported this last week to this list.

Seems that OpenSSL-1.0.1g is linked to libssl-1.0.0, not the usual 
libssl-1.x.x format.

Probably a make file error, but it really seems to be 1.0.1g.

John
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On Friday 18 April 2014 12:14:32 Christopher Schultz wrote:
> Igor,
> 
> On 4/17/14, 8:56 PM, Igor Cicimov wrote:
> > On 18/04/2014 2:30 AM, "Hanno Böck" <hanno@xxxxxxxxx
> > 
> > <mailto:hanno@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >> On Thu, 17 Apr 2014 12:27:37 -0400
> >> Christopher Schultz <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > 
> > <mailto:chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >> > I'm trying to enable (and prefer!) ECDHE ciphers for clients that
> >> > can
> >> 
> >> > support them. I've done the obvious:
> >> [...]
> >> 
> >> > I'm running httpd 2.2.23
> >> 
> >> That's your problem. Get rid of that old cruft. You'll need apache
> >> 2.4 (for that and for many other improvements regarding ssl
> >> encryption).
> > 
> > No you don't i have 2.2 with latest openssl-1.0.1g on all my servers
> > and TLSv1.2 and ECDHE ciphers are supported.
> 
> I checked, and even though I have the OpenSSL 1.0.1g package installed,
> it appears that httpd was compiled against OpenSSL 1.0.0. When I look at
> the start up log, it says:
> 
> [Mon Apr 14 15:49:34 2014] [notice] Apache/2.2.23 (Unix) DAV/2
> mod_jk/1.2.37 PHP/5.3.28 mod_ssl/2.2.23 OpenSSL/1.0.0-fips configured --
> resuming normal operations
> 
> On another test server, I upgraded to the latest 2.2.x httpd I can get
> from Amazon, which is 2.2.26. I re-started and still can't seem to use
> the ECDHE algorithms.
> 
> On that same (second) test server I upgraded to httpd 2.4.9. Here is the
> startup log message there:
> 
> [Fri Apr 18 15:53:26.330856 2014] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 15337]
> AH00163: Apache/2.4.9 (Amazon) OpenSSL/1.0.1e-fips PHP/5.5.10
> mod_jk/1.2.40 configured -- resuming normal operations
> 
> I'm now able to use the ECDHE ciphers.
> 
> Everything appears to be dynamically-linked, so I can't understand why
> 2.2.x reports it's running with OpenSSL 1.0.0 when I clearly have 1.0.1
> installed. This is almost certainly an Amazon-Linux-related thing if you
> were able to get ECDHE ciphers working on 2.2.x.
> 
> I wonder, what does your startup string say about OpenSSL?
> 
> The good news is that I really did only have to put it in my ciphers
> list.
> 
> Thanks,
> -chris

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