[openssl-dev] cipher order

Blumenthal, Uri - 0553 - MITLL uri at ll.mit.edu
Thu Mar 3 15:33:51 UTC 2016


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  Original Message  
From: Hanno Böck
Sent: Thursday, March 3, 2016 07:28
To: openssl-dev at openssl.org
Reply To: openssl-dev at openssl.org
Subject: [openssl-dev] cipher order

Hi,

Last year I proposed to change the ciphering order in OpenSSL to always
prefer AEAD cipher suites before CBC/HMAC-based ones:
https://mta.openssl.org/pipermail/openssl-dev/2015-January/000421.html

I just checked openssl 1.1.0 alpha and it still orders ciphers in an
imho problematic way.

Browsers have largely decided to implement GCM-modes only with AES128.
Chrome is now about to change that. Not sure if other browsers will
follow.

Right now if you configure a server with openssl's cipher suite
ordering it is likely that a connection will happen with AES256 in CBC
mode instead of the (most likely more secure) AES128 in GCM mode.

Can this be changed before 1.1.0 gets out?

-- 
Hanno Böck
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