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Date:      Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:30:32 -0500
From:      John Almberg <jalmberg@identry.com>
To:        Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Disallowing ssl2
Message-ID:  <F4246074-E12C-4A51-AA75-22533686D000@identry.com>
In-Reply-To: <49199B62.8020404@infracaninophile.co.uk>
References:  <7F59430C-9DD9-44F1-B250-EB7109FBDF8B@identry.com> <49199B62.8020404@infracaninophile.co.uk>

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> It's certainly possible to insist on SSLv3 or TLSv1 for SSL  
> connections,
> and nothing[*] will break.  The client and server will negotiate to  
> find a
> mutually acceptable cipher and protocol level at the point of  
> making the
> connection.

This seems to be less painful than I was anticipating... Besides  
apache, I had to figure out how to boost the security on IMAP and POP  
3 connections. I'm using Courier, so this was pretty simple... just  
added the following to the imap and pop ssl config files:

TLS_CIPHER_LIST="HIGH:MEDIUM:!SSLv2:!LOW:!EXP:!aNULL:@STRENGTH"

I'm going to resubmit the server... hopefully it will pass this time.

But I wonder why the defaults for Apache and Courier are to accept  
SSL 2, if it is so problematical?

-- John




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