From:	Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade	Date:	Mon Aug 18 11:42:31 2008
Subject:	Re: Net::LDAPS using weak encryption?

On Aug 18, 2008, at 9:56 AM, Gregory K.Ruiz-Ade wrote:

> Anyone have any ideas why perl-ldap/Net::LDAP would be using such  
> weaker encryption? I've got all the necessary certificates properly  
> installed for openssl.
>
> Is there a configuration option that changed from version 0.31 (on  
> our RHEL/CentOS 4 systems, where everything works) to 0.33 (on our  
> RHEL/CentOS 5 systems, where this doesn't work)?


Turns out I needed to add the option:

   ciphers => 'HIGH'

to my Net::LDAPS->new() call.

Works perfectly now.

Apparently the defaults changed somewhere in the differences between  
RHEL4 and RHEL5.

Gregory

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