Re: tls plugin and SSL version

[email protected] (Robert Spier)
Newsgroups perl.qpsmtpd
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Matt,

  Could you integrate this kind of config into the tls plugin?  That's
  definitely nicer than hardcoding a cipher.

  Thanks!

-R

Matt Simerson wrote:
> 
> 
> Here's a chunk of code from one of my projects:
> 
> A config file setting allows an admin to choose from; all, high, medium, or pci. 
> 
> my $s = $ciphers eq 'all'    ? 'ALL'
>         : $ciphers eq 'high'   ? 'HIGH:!SSLv2'
>         : $ciphers eq 'medium' ? 'HIGH:MEDIUM:!SSLv2'
>         : $ciphers eq 'pci'    ? 'DEFAULT:!ADH:!LOW:!EXP:!SSLv2:+HIGH:+MEDIUM'
>         :                        'DEFAULT';
> 
> Then you set SSL_cipher_list in the call to IO::Socket::SSL::SSL_Context->new. 
> 
> Matt
> 
> PS: IIRC, I pulled the high, medium, low settings out of the openssl docs. 
> 
> On Jul 22, 2010, at 7:29 PM, Charlie Brady wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I've seen some reports that qpsmtp fails some PCI compliance testing 
> > because it can be accessed via SSLv2.
> > 
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_Card_Industry_Data_Security_Standard
> > 
> > http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6141
> > 
> > Here's a simple, and untested, patch - someone might care to do something 
> > more elaborate to allow choice of TLSv1 or SSLv3 (unfortunately 
> > IO::Socket::SSL doesn't seem to allow disable of just SSLv2).
> > 
> > --- qpsmtpd-0.83/plugins/tls.orig	2010-07-22 22:04:00.000000000 -0400
> > +++ qpsmtpd-0.83/plugins/tls	2010-07-22 22:09:35.000000000 -0400
> > @@ -80,6 +80,7 @@
> >     local $^W; # this bit is very noisy...
> >     my $ssl_ctx = IO::Socket::SSL::SSL_Context->new(
> >         SSL_use_cert => 1,
> > +        SSL_version => 'TLSv1',
> >         SSL_cert_file => $self->tls_cert,
> >         SSL_key_file => $self->tls_key,
> >         SSL_ca_file => $self->tls_ca,
> > @@ -176,6 +177,7 @@
> >         my $tlssocket = IO::Socket::SSL->new_from_fd(
> >             fileno(STDIN), '+>',
> >             SSL_use_cert => 1,
> > +            SSL_version => 'TLSv1',
> >             SSL_cert_file => $self->tls_cert,
> >             SSL_key_file => $self->tls_key,
> >             SSL_ca_file => $self->tls_ca,
> > 
>
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