[openssl-dev] [openssl.org #3953] Bug: !RSA does not exclude aRSA

Viktor Dukhovni openssl-users at dukhovni.org
Wed Jul 22 21:18:01 UTC 2015


On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 08:49:05PM +0000, Kurt Roeckx via RT wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 07:38:48PM +0000, Lynch, Paul[E] via RT wrote:
> > The ciphers documentation page (https://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/ciphers.html) says:
> > 
> > "kRSA, aRSA, RSA
> >    cipher suites using RSA key exchange, authentication or either respectively."
> > 
> > That sounds like "RSA" should be a superset of kRSA and aRSA, but actually aRSA includes cipher suites not in "RSA", as can be seen from:
> 
> I think the problem is that "RSA" does "and" instead of "or", and
> ends up being the same as "kRSA".

Yes, one way or another the "RSA" cipherstring is just "kRSA".

-- 
	Viktor.


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