On 08/20/2009 03:40 PM, Brian Mearns wrote:
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Sander Temme<sctemme@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:On Aug 20, 2009, at 3:16 PM, Brian Mearns wrote:For the sake of security, I'd like to configure my SSL/TLS server to not allow export level ciphers (using the SSLCipherSuite directive). Is this going to realistically limit the number of people who can use a secure connection to my site? Specifically, will visitors from other countries (outside the US) be able to support the stronger (non-exportable) ciphers?You can configure a logfile to record what ciphers your users are currently using, and draw conclusions from that. S.[clip] Good idea, but I'm not currently getting many users. I'm thinking in the long term, I don't want to lock out potential visitors just because they're using weak crypto. -Brian
Brian,Have you considered using Apache's "SGC"? There's a nice little blurb about it in the Apache Docs.[ http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/ssl/ssl_howto.html#upgradeenc ]
"How can I create an SSL server which accepts strong encryption only, but allows export browsers to upgrade to stronger encryption?"
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