Hi Rob,

* Dne Pátek 18. březen 2016, 15:44:34 [CET] Rob Crittenden napsal:
> 
> >>Thanks for the patch! I created https://fedorahosted.org/mod_nss/ticket/25
> >>to track this.
> >
> >Thanks, I updated the patch in there.
> 
> Ok thanks, I'll take a look.

The new patch incorporates suggestions from your first email.

> >>Some comments:
> >>
> >>I think it would be best to completely drop get_ciphers and the lines that
> >>were calling it.
> >>
> >>There is a problem though.
> >
> >I sort of expected that this step may cause some problems, that's why
> >I left the code in, but commented it out.
> >
> >>In Fedora/RHEL/CentOS there is a movement towards a
> >>system-level SSL/TLS configuration. This leaves an unusable configuration 
> >>of:
> >>
> >>NSSCipherSuite PROFILE=SYSTEM
> >>NSSProxyCipherSuite PROFILE=SYSTEM
> >>
> >>This is because NSS is almost, but not quite, there when it comes to
> >>system-level config and it is going to be configured differently.
> >>
> >>The OpenSSL policy file in Fedora is
> >>/etc/crypto-policies/back-ends/openssl.config. I don't know how safe it is
> >>to slurp that in and use it. On my box it is just a cipher string.
> >>
> >>So either the system config needs to be read and the values replaced or
> >>get_ciphers needs to be updated big time. I'd prefer the former.
> >
> >If centralized cipher settings are in place, then the migrate.pl script
> >should definitely be aware of them.
> >This is however Fedora/RHEL specific.
> >I think, we can keep the cipher string on other distributions.
> 
> Yup. I think we can just look for PROFILE=SYSTEM and slurp in
> /etc/crypto-policies/back-ends/openssl.config. I can add this on after your
> patch if you'd prefer.

I wouldn't, feel free to modify the patch.

-- 
Vita Cizek

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