On Tuesday 09 June 2015, Alexey Ivanov wrote:
> > On Jun 6, 2015, at 5:31 AM, Joel Sing <j...@sing.id.au> wrote:
> >
> > On Saturday 06 June 2015, 1edhaz+9sj4olxjt6...@guerrillamail.com wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> LibreSSL 2.2 (openbsd-current) fails to connect to
> >> https://webdav.yandex.com.
> >>
> >> OpenSSL 1.0.1m from OpenBSD packages does succeed.
> >>
> >> Yandex is the largest search engine in Russia. The webdav.yandex.com
> >> site is for accessing their file-hosting service.
> >>
> >> System info:
> >>
> >> $ uname -a
> >> OpenBSD roger.my.domain 5.7 GENERIC.MP#1039 amd64
> >> $ dmesg | head -n 1
> >> OpenBSD 5.7-current (GENERIC.MP) #1039: Wed Jun  3 12:09:31 MDT 2015
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > The issue is due to the remote end not being RFC compliant and failing to
> > complete a TLS handshake when it does not recognise TLS signature
> > algorithms (sigalgs) that are being advertised by the client. In this
> > case the new signature algorithms are related to GOST - almost the
> > definition of irony...
>
> GOST… lol indeed =)
>
> > If you want to verify this for yourself, you can comment out the GOST
> > related entries in the tls12_sigalgs array in t1_lib.c. HTTPS connections
> > to www.yandex.com work without issue, so it would seemingly be the
> > particular HTTP server that is being used for this service - I would
> > recommend contacting Yandex and reporting the issue to them.
>
> He just did - Yandex is heavy BSD user, so many people there are reading
> tech@ and freebsd-hackers@. Some brave souls even subscribed to
> trolls@^Wmisc@!
>
> Back to the problem itself, as far as I know they are aware of it. In the
> meantime, while they are busy solving it on their side, you may want to
> limit ciphersuites client is using by calling `SSL_CTX_set_cipher_list`
> before `SSL_do_handshake`.

Except that would not have made any difference - currently the list of 
signature algorithms is static and not dependent on the cipher suites 
selected.

> PS. Anyway, next time you probably want to report libressl-related problems
> to recently announced libre...@openbsd.org [1].
>
> [1] http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.tech/42319
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