On 05 Jan 2015, at 18:47, Viktor Dukhovni <postfix-us...@dukhovni.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 05, 2015 at 06:01:03PM +0100, DTNX Postmaster wrote:
> 
>>> With RC4-SHA early enough for the 11-year old Microsoft Exchange
>>> servers.
>> 
>> Sadly, older Exchange servers (2003 at least) will favour 3DES over RC4 
>> for TLS connections, IIRC.
> 
> This is not correct.
> 
>> I don't have the fix we used on hand, as our oldest supported Exchange 
>> version is 2010 these days, but we had an override of some sort that 
>> required forcing 'DES-CBC3-SHA' for that specific box.
>> 
>> You can specify that as 'DES-CBC3-SHA', or select with something like 
>> this;
>> 
>> ==
>> $ openssl ciphers -v 'RSA+3DES'
>> DES-CBC3-SHA            SSLv3 Kx=RSA      Au=RSA  Enc=3DES(168) Mac=SHA1
> 
> No, this is a bad idea, it is in fact 3DES that is broken with such servers.

Ah, I remember now ... My bad. You are indeed correct, the override was 
to disable 3DES altogether for that box.

Mvg,
Joni

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