h2 ciphers

Stefan Eissing <stefan.eissing@greenbytes.de> Fri, 16 October 2015 10:39 UTC

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In the documentation at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Server_Side_TLS#Modern_compatibility the "modern" compatibility specification includes the following ciphers:

ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA
ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256
ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA
ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256

ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA
ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384
ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA
ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384

DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA
DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256
DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA
DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256
DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA
DHE-DSS-AES128-SHA256

but RFC 7540 includes TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA (ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA) and all those others as a MAY for INADEQUATE_SECURITY.

Now, assuming I got the cipher names correct, what am I to check for? Shall I be liberal in what I accept - again?

//Stefan