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From: "mato" <gamato@users.sf.net>
To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 09:47:52 +0100
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Subject: Re: where to set SSL compile time cipher string ?
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On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 11:00:46 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote
> martinko <gamato@pobox.sk> writes:
> 
> > I'm not sure I understood this correctly but at
> > <http://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/ciphers.html> I've read something
> > about cipher list and defaults etc.  And I would like to tell my system
> > to build SSL with ``high'' encryption cipher suites.  Where can I set
> > this preference pls ??  I've searched through make.conf and man pages
> > but haven't found anything.
> 
> Any particular reason?  After all, that won't make your system more secure...

well, i guess the reason was basically the same one i have with
mozilla/seamonkey -- first thing i do on fresh install is to disable all the
weak ciphers (like DES etc).

anyway, the question was if and how, not why.. ;-)