On Thu, Dec 04, 2014, Tomas Hoger wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Dec 2014 22:55:06 +0100 Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> 
> Maybe applications may benefit from an API where they can pass string
> set by the end user and let OpenSSL parse version number from that.
> If mod_ssl had configuration directives as SSLProtocolMin and
> SSLProtocolMax, it could e.g. use the following while used with OpenSSL
> 1.0.0:
> 
> SSLProtocolMin "TLSv1.0"
> 
> instead of
> 
> SSLProtocol all -SSLv2 -SSLv3
> 
> If TLS 1.2 is undesired after rebase to OpenSSL 1.0.1, this can be
> added:
> 
> SSLProtocolMax "TLSv1.1"
> 
> The httpd could be able to treat SSLProtocolMin/Max strings as opaque,
> just like SSLCipherSuite.
> 

This can already be done in the SSL_CONF API for OpenSSL 1.0.2+. Apache
httpd (and hopefully other applicacations at some point) includes support
so we'd just need to add a new command value.

Steve.
--
Dr Stephen N. Henson. OpenSSL project core developer.
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