On Fri, 2020-04-17 at 13:03 -0400, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 05:17:47PM +0200, Tomas Mraz wrote:
>
> > Or you could modify the /etc/pki/tls/openssl.cnf:
> > Find the .include /etc/crypto-policies/back-ends/opensslcnf.config
> > line in it and insert something like:
> >
> > CipherString =
> > @SECLEVEL=1:kEECDH:kRSA:kEDH:kPSK:kDHEPSK:kECDHEPSK:!DES:!RC2:!RC4:
> > !IDEA:-SEED:!eNULL:!aNULL:!MD5:-SHA384:-CAMELLIA:-ARIA:-AESCCM8
>
> How did this particular contraption become a recommended cipherlist?
To explain - this is basically autogenerated value from the crypto
policy definiton of the LEGACY crypto policy with just added the !RC4.
> What's wrong with "DEFAULT"? In OpenSSL 1.1.1 it already excludes
> RC4 (if RC4 is at all enabled at compile time):
Nothing wrong with DEFAULT. For manual configuration. This is however
something that is autogenerated.
> $ openssl ciphers -v 'COMPLEMENTOFDEFAULT+RC4'
> ECDHE-ECDSA-RC4-SHA TLSv1 Kx=ECDH Au=ECDSA Enc=RC4(128)
> Mac=SHA1
> ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA TLSv1
> Kx=ECDH Au=RSA Enc=RC4(128) Mac=SHA1
> RC4-SHA SSLv3
> Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=RC4(128) Mac=SHA1
>
> I find too many people cargo-culting poorly thought cipher lists from
> some random HOWTO. Over optimising your cipherlist is subject to
> rapid bitrot, resist the temptation...
Yeah, I should have probably suggested just: CipherString = DEFAULT
There is not much point in being as close to the autogenerated policy
as possible for this particular user's use-case.
--
Tomáš Mráz
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[You'll know whether the road is wrong if you carefully listen to your
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