CentOS tracks RHEL and there is something I think probably can only be
done in a point release but I believe should be done.
Update to nss and curl.
The problem - the version of curl that ships with CentOS does not
support ECC cryptography.
A newer version would, but requires manual specification of the ciphers
if the TLS/SSL library used (NSS on RHEL/Fedora) does not have the ECC
ciphers enabled by default, and the NSS in RHEL/CentOS 7 does not.
This causes a problem when using CentOS 7 for something like a CDN that
needs to pull content from a server using modern ECC cryptography
without support for the older cryptography methods, and some sensitive
servers are starting to do just that to avoid being vulnerable to
various 0 day exploits that pop up with older cryptography.
I think the NSS library should be rebuilt to have ECC ciphers enabled by
default (I don't think that requires a version update) and that curl
should be updated, with a newer build, that includes a bump to the .so
version.
Thoughts on this?
I'm out of town, I plan to try and file a bugzilla for this when I get
back, but if this sounds idiotic to most then I won't.
I can solve it on my system with a local build.
Thank you for your time.
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