On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 3:16 AM, Stefan Eissing <
[email protected]> wrote:
>...

> That is the intention behind "SSLPolicy modern|intermediate|old" that
> configures the TLS stack according to the Mozilla server-side-tls
> recommendations. So, one does not have to mess with many directives to have
> a site with an "A" SSL Labs rating.
>
> Besides, except for data center setups, Apache will be used *only* with
> https: (and http: redirects to https:) very, very soon. That shifts the
> average expertise of an admin setting up a https: site.
>
> Back to TLSv1.3:
>
> I do not like to invent new config directives for a new TLS version
> either. The protocol on/off switch is now in "SSLProtocol" and that's where
> it should be. AFAIK, it's only the cipher list that needs special treatment
> (if one wants to override defaults or what SSLPolicy will do for it, once a
> recommendation is out).
>

Gotcha.


>
> So, looking at "SSLCipherSuite". It basically passes the string to the
> *SSL library. The manual page makes a big explanation and tables of
> ciphers, but the lists repeats basically how OpenSSL cipher strings work.
> It would be better to scrap that and replace it with a link to
> https://www.openssl.org/docs/man1.0.2/apps/ciphers.html, now that openssl
> has nicer documentation)
>
> Along the gist of your proposal, I think I'll expand "SSLCipherSuite" to
> take more than 1 argument and look for optional prefixes to the suite
> strings given, so one could do
>

Oooh! Yes. Looks great.

+1

>...

Cheers,
-g

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