[openssl-users] Disabling Client-Initiated TLS renegotiation

[Wall, Stephen]

I suppose one could abuse SSL_set_msg_callback() to create a filter that rewrites the initial re-handshake message into something innocuous.  Though I doubt that would work, once the client starts a handshake, it expects a response from the server, and may well time out and close if it does not get one.  The way TLS works, it is always the client starting a renegotiation.  The server can send a message asking the client to renegotiate, but the client can ignore that. I don't believe the opposite is true.

From: openssl-users [mailto:openssl-users-bounces at openssl.org] On Behalf Of Sashank Mullapudi (samullap)
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Subject: Re: [openssl-users] Disabling Client-Initiated TLS renegotiation

Resending this hoping for a response from someone who has information on disabling TLS renegotiation from the Client side.

Thanks,
Sashank

From: samullap <samullap at cisco.com<mailto:samullap at cisco.com>>
Date: Tuesday, 22 November 2016 at 12:21 PM
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Subject: Disabling Client-Initiated TLS renegotiation

Hi,

As part of securing our web interfaces, we wanted to disable client-initiated TLS renegotiation.

The reasoning for this requirement is as follows- Generally, renegotiation of TLS sessions is much more resource-intensive for the server than the client, and should therefore not be performed at will to avoid degrading performance. Disabling client from renegotiating secures the server from undergoing a DoS attack due to continuous renegotiation requests.

I see that there is an option SSL_OP_ALLOW_UNSAFE_LEGACY_RENEGOTIATION, but that is to secure the renegotiation, not disable it.

I wanted to check if there is a patch or flag available to disable any negotiation initiated from the client side.

Thanks and Regards,
Sashank
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