[openssl-users] How to use ADH with OpenSSL 1.1.0

Frykenvall, Per per.frykenvall at cgi.com
Sat Apr 14 08:57:23 UTC 2018


>> Then I tried adding :@SECLEVEL=0 to my cipher suite list. That made the trick, but as far as I understand, it switches off some other cipher checks. What's the recommended way of allowing ADH?

>For now just @SECLEVEL=0.  There's not yet a more fine-grained to set the security 
>level for crypto parameters but allow certificate-less key exchange.  If you're willing
>to allow MiTM attacks, then downgrades are of scope, and the peers will negotiate
>the best available ciphers, so @SECLEVEL=0 is probably fine, you'll still get strong ciphers.
>You can also limit the cipher list to exclude anything you feel is too weak to offer.

Since we never allow unauthenticated cipher suites in production configurations, it's actually not a problem with the @SECLEVEL solution for those test systems where we do use ADH. Glad that I don't have to use a modified callback.
Thanks a lot, Per



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