Dear all,

I got it to work, and added a pull request.

Cheers,

Rutger



On 01-06-16 09:34, Rutger ter Borg wrote:
>
> Deal all,
>
> I'm using a wthttpd instance to serve a Wt app. I used
> https://www.ssllabs.com/ to test the quality of its security settings.
> So far, the highest achievable of wthttpd is an A-, because wthttpd is
> not forcing forward secrecy upon clients that do support them, but do
> not prefer them. The DH param option already helps, but is not sufficient.
>
> My guess is that wthttpd will get proper support for forward secrecy if
> server-side ciphers are preferred (and use the ones that use Ephemeral
> Diffie-Hellman, DHE). The following would fix this:
>
> Modify http/Configuration:
>
> * add a sslPreferServerCiphers() (a boolean) option
>
> Modify http/Server, around // HTTPS and int sslOptions:
>
> if ( config.sslPreferServerCiphers() ) {
>     SSL_CTX_set_option( native_ctx, SSL_OP_CIPHER_SERVER_PREFERENCE );
> }
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rutger
>
>



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