Re: Disable SSLv3 and set cipher list for bozohttpd

[email protected] Wed, 09 Dec 2015 20:33:35 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.security
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Le 2015-12-08 21:58, [email protected] a écrit :
>> Why not supply the ! list (the ones you want to remove)... It is 
>> shorter
>> and easier to understand and maintain...

I agree, much simpler!

On 2015-12-09 08:30, Jean-Yves Migeon wrote:
> I would dump 3DES and CAMELLIA (less review + hardware acceleration
> support) and also dump TLS 1.0 (SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1) due to BEAST.

Good catch, thank you!

> Le 2015-12-08 23:23, Joerg Sonnenberger a écrit :
>> I have some serious concerns about the cipher order. AES-GCM should 
>> only
>> be used as default choice if there is hardware acceleration for it.
>> The resistence against timing attacks is very questionable otherwise.
> 
> This argument may apply to CBC with lucky 13, somehow. TBH the
> proposed modification does not make things worse compared to the
> previous state

This discussion made something apparent to me that I had not considered 
before.

Perhaps the cipher list should be supplied by a command line argument 
instead of
being compiled into base so that it can be chosen at runtime?

If that sounds like a good choice, I will send an updated patch.

Thank you all for your feedback,
Travis Paul