RE: Re: SEC webpages inaccessible due to Firefox blocking servers with weak DH ciphers

2015-07-20 Thread Drew Weaver
Subject: Re: Re: SEC webpages inaccessible due to Firefox blocking servers with weak DH ciphers 17. Jul 2015 21:06 by will.mcderm...@sjsu.edu: Load balancers can also be used like this, while maintaining redundancy (assuming HA LB config). Terminate SSL/TLS on the LB and run plain-text

Re: SEC webpages inaccessible due to Firefox blocking servers with weak DH ciphers

2015-07-19 Thread Alexander Bochmann
...on Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 01:42:37PM +, Matthew Huff wrote: After making the about:config changes, no warning is given to the user about the bad ciphers. Even if you click the SSL lock icon, no warning is given. Only if you know that the connection being made with

Re: Re: SEC webpages inaccessible due to Firefox blocking servers with weak DH ciphers

2015-07-19 Thread tqr2813d376cjozqap1l
17. Jul 2015 21:06 by will.mcderm...@sjsu.edu: Load balancers can also be used like this, while maintaining redundancy (assuming HA LB config). Terminate SSL/TLS on the LB and run plain-text to the application/appliance. As long as the load balancer is in an acceptable part of the

Re: SEC webpages inaccessible due to Firefox blocking servers with weak DH ciphers

2015-07-19 Thread Will M.
webpages inaccessible due to Firefox blocking servers with weak DH ciphers (Sorry Michael for the duplicate, forgot to press reply all :P) No problem making the web more secure, but in such cases I think it would have been better if you could set this behaviour per site, same as with 'invalid/self

Re: Re: SEC webpages inaccessible due to Firefox blocking servers with weak DH ciphers

2015-07-18 Thread George Metz
Federal government lands on you like a sack of bricks if you don't provide this information through their (in)secure website. No exceptions. Sometimes you can't fire the vendor because they're not a vendor, they're a freaking regulatory agency with the power to crush you like a bug, and a 5 year

Re: SEC webpages inaccessible due to Firefox blocking servers with weak DH ciphers

2015-07-17 Thread Alexander Maassen
As of 38.0.5, this no longer is even an option, as they removed sslv3 support, see the reviews at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ssl-version-control/ On Fri, July 17, 2015 2:41 pm, Robert Drake wrote: On 7/17/2015 4:26 AM, Alexander Maassen wrote: Well, this block also affects

Re: SEC webpages inaccessible due to Firefox blocking servers with weak DH ciphers

2015-07-17 Thread Robert Drake
On 7/17/2015 4:26 AM, Alexander Maassen wrote: Well, this block also affects people who have old management hardware around using such ciphers that are for example no longer supported. In my case for example the old Dell DRAC's. And it seems there is no way to disable this block. Ok, it is

RE: SEC webpages inaccessible due to Firefox blocking servers with weak DH ciphers

2015-07-17 Thread Matthew Huff
Sent: Friday, July 17, 2015 8:42 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: SEC webpages inaccessible due to Firefox blocking servers with weak DH ciphers On 7/17/2015 4:26 AM, Alexander Maassen wrote: Well, this block also affects people who have old management hardware around using such ciphers

Re: SEC webpages inaccessible due to Firefox blocking servers with weak DH ciphers

2015-07-17 Thread Jeff Gehlbach
On 07/17/2015 08:41 AM, Robert Drake wrote: I've also got a jetty server (opennms) that broke due to this, so I upgraded and fixed the SSL options and it's still broken in some way that won't log errors. I have no time to track that down so the workaround is to use the unencrypted version

Re: SEC webpages inaccessible due to Firefox blocking servers with weak DH ciphers

2015-07-17 Thread Randy Bush
many web sites are gonna have to upgrade ciphers and get rid of flash. this will take vastly longer than prudence would dictate. randy

Re: SEC webpages inaccessible due to Firefox blocking servers with weak DH ciphers

2015-07-17 Thread Alexander Maassen
Well, this block also affects people who have old management hardware around using such ciphers that are for example no longer supported. In my case for example the old Dell DRAC's. And it seems there is no way to disable this block. Ok, it is good to think about security, but not giving you any

Re: SEC webpages inaccessible due to Firefox blocking servers with weak DH ciphers

2015-07-17 Thread Geoffrey Keating
Robert Drake rdr...@direcpath.com writes: On 7/17/2015 4:26 AM, Alexander Maassen wrote: Well, this block also affects people who have old management hardware around using such ciphers that are for example no longer supported. In my case for example the old Dell DRAC's. And it seems there

Re: SEC webpages inaccessible due to Firefox blocking servers with weak DH ciphers

2015-07-17 Thread Michael O Holstein
making 99% of the web secure is better than keeping an old 1% working A fine idea, unless for $reason your application is among the 1% .. nevermind the arrogance of the I'm sorry Dave sort of attitude. As an example .. we have a vendor who, in the current release (last 3 months) still requires

Re: SEC webpages inaccessible due to Firefox blocking servers with weak DH ciphers

2015-07-17 Thread Alexander Maassen
(Sorry Michael for the duplicate, forgot to press reply all :P) No problem making the web more secure, but in such cases I think it would have been better if you could set this behaviour per site, same as with 'invalid/self signed certs'. And in some cases, vendors use weak ciphers because they

Re: SEC webpages inaccessible due to Firefox blocking servers with weak DH ciphers

2015-07-17 Thread Matt Palmer
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 07:14:17PM +, Michael O Holstein wrote: making 99% of the web secure is better than keeping an old 1% working A fine idea, unless for $reason your application is among the 1% .. nevermind the arrogance of the I'm sorry Dave sort of attitude. First they came for

Re: Re: SEC webpages inaccessible due to Firefox blocking servers with weak DH ciphers

2015-07-17 Thread tqr2813d376cjozqap1l
Weak ciphers? Old (insecure) protocol versions? Open security issues? Vendor will never provide a patch? Trash goes in the trash bin, no exceptions.

Re: SEC webpages inaccessible due to Firefox blocking servers with weak DH ciphers

2015-07-17 Thread Matt Palmer
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 10:26:22AM +0200, Alexander Maassen wrote: Ok, it is good to think about security, but not giving you any chance to make exceptions is simply forcing users to use another browser in order to manage those devices, or to keep an old machine around that not gets updated.

Re: SEC webpages inaccessible due to Firefox blocking servers with weak DH ciphers

2015-07-17 Thread Niels Bakker
* michael.holst...@csuohio.edu (Michael O Holstein) [Fri 17 Jul 2015, 21:14 CEST]: making 99% of the web secure is better than keeping an old 1% working A fine idea, unless for $reason your application is among the 1% .. nevermind the arrogance of the I'm sorry Dave sort of attitude. Why do

Re: SEC webpages inaccessible due to Firefox blocking servers with weak DH ciphers

2015-07-17 Thread Michael O Holstein
Why do you upgrade your management systems asynchronously to your applications? You bring this on yourself. Perhaps, but SaaS management systems are out of our control. They TELL us when they upgrade, they do not ASK. A web browser isn't really an application, you can't wait to upgrade.

Re: SEC webpages inaccessible due to Firefox blocking servers with weak DH ciphers

2015-07-17 Thread Michael O Holstein
inaccessible due to Firefox blocking servers with weak DH ciphers (Sorry Michael for the duplicate, forgot to press reply all :P) No problem making the web more secure, but in such cases I think it would have been better if you could set this behaviour per site, same as with 'invalid/self signed