Are DHE_DSS cipher suites not supported?

John Jiang john.sha.jiang at gmail.com
Fri Oct 25 12:52:50 UTC 2019


On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 8:50 PM Matt Caswell <matt at openssl.org> wrote:

>
>
> On 25/10/2019 09:39, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 03:33:43PM +0800, John Jiang wrote:
> >
> >> I'm using OpenSSL 1.1.1d.
> >> Just want to confirm if DHE_DSS cipher suites are not supported by this
> >> version.
> >
> > They are supported, but:
> >
> >     * DSS ciphersuites are disabled by DEFAULT.  You need to
> >       specify an explicit "-cipher" option to enable these,
> >       for example:
> >
> >         $ openssl s_server -accept 12345 \
> >           -tls1_2 -cipher DHE-DSS-AES256-GCM-SHA384 \
> >           -dhparam dhparam.pem -key dsakey.pem -cert dsacert.pem
> >
> >       or more typically:
> >
> >       -cipher 'ALL:!RC4:!aNULL'
> >
> >     * You should also supply DH parameters as above:
>
> This step is optional. It will work just fine with default parameters if
> you don't specify them.
>
I only add option -cipher to s_server. That works for me.
Thanks!


>
> Matt
>
>
>
> >
> >       -dhparam dhparam.pem
> >
> >       I generated these with:
> >
> >       $ openssl genpkey -genparam -algorithm dh \
> >           -pkeyopt dh_paramgen_prime_len:2048 -out dhparam.pem
> >
>
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