[openssl-users] Diffie-Hellman Questions

[Michael Wojcik]

> From: openssl-users [mailto:openssl-users-bounces at openssl.org] On Behalf
> Of Norm Green
> Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2016 13:40
> 
> I've tried both:
> 
> SSL_CTX_set_cipher_list("AECDH")
> 
> and:
> 
> SSL_CTX_set_cipher_list("AECDH-AES256-SHA")
> 
> on both the client and server side, both of which result in the dreaded
> "no shared cipher" error:
> 
> error:1408A0C1:SSL routines:ssl3_get_client_hello:no shared
> cipher:s3_srvr.c:1417:

You might run a wire trace to see what suites the client is actually advertising.

And you are using TLS, right?

For AECDH* (or any ECC suite), don't you have to tell OpenSSL what curve to use? I haven't implemented that bit myself in any applications, but my understanding is that with OpenSSL 1.0.2 you can just call SSL_CTX_set_ecdh_auto(ctx, 1). With 1.0.1 you have to specify a particular named curve with SSL_CTX_set_tmp_ecdh.

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Michael Wojcik
Technology Specialist, Micro Focus