Am 25.05.2014 10:48, schrieb Hani Benhabiles:
> On 2014-05-25 0:33, Reindl Harald wrote:
>> Am 25.05.2014 01:12, schrieb Hani Benhabiles:
>>> On 2014-05-23 21:13, Jason Garin wrote:
>>>> Is there a way to disable weak ciphers used by gsad and openvasmd?
>>>
>>> Yes, see --gnutls-priorities and --dh-params cli arguments
>>
>> may i ask why there are no sane defaults and if you are aware
>> that many browsers not supporting DHE ciphers while OpenVAS
>> at least in V6 not supports ECDHE
>>
>> normally if a software scans other machines and services
>> for PCI compliance the minimum is that itself is PCI
>> compliant at the same time - practice what you preach
> 
> For PFS support (using DH based algorithms) in GSA, the recently released 
> libmicrohttpd 0.9.35 is required to be
> able to specify Diffie-Hellman parameters.
> 
> For ECDHE and ECDSA, GnuTLS 3.x is needed. GnuTLS 2.x doesn't support those 
> (but you can add PFS support with
> DHE-RSA which is supported in 2.x)
> 
> IANAL, but the issue with GnuTLS seems to be a "GPLv2 only" problem (that was 
> solved recently ? [1]) but I can't
> provide advice on this matter ;)

oh yeah the libmicrohttp / gnutls hell and openvas again

that wasted a year of my lifetime trying to get openvas running
on a recent operating system and now the same crap on a LTS
distribution can't provide state of the art encryption

the decisison to replace openssl by gnutls was plain wrong!

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