Re: stunnel 5.46 released

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> From: openssl-users [mailto:openssl-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Viktor Dukhovni
> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2018 03:40
> To: openssl-users@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  stunnel 5.46 released
>
>
> > On May 31, 2018, at 3:27 AM, Michał Trojnara
> <Michal.Trojnara@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > AFAIR EC cipher suites were introduced in OpenSSL 1.0.0, so those LTS
> > systems must be using OpenSSL 0.9.x.
>
> Actually, no.  For IP-related reasons, RedHat for a long time
> disabled EC support in OpenSSL 1.0.x.  I expect some of those
> systems are still deployed.

As do some other products that use OpenSSL. There's a great deal of FUD regarding ECC.

For the record, I'm with Viktor on this. WeakDH does not justify disabling finite-field DHE entirely; that's a misinterpretation of the WeakDH discovery. There's no advantage to having !DH in the default cipher string.

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Michael Wojcik
Distinguished Engineer, Micro Focus


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