Disable SSLv2 ?

Ken Murchison murch at andrew.cmu.edu
Tue Oct 28 06:51:25 EDT 2008


Wesley Alan Wright wrote:
> Using cyrus-imapd-2.2.12-9.RHEL4.i386 and cyrus-sasl-2.1.19-14.i386,  
> trying to disable sslV2 to satisfy silly PCI (Purchase Card Industry)  
> requirements yet keep ports 993 and 995 open. Tried 37 different  
> variations of tls_cipher_list includin draconian tls_cipher_list: -ALL: 
> +HIGH:-SSLv2m yet
> 
> openssl s_client -ssl2 -connect localhost:993
> 
> 
> Still yields
> 
> SSL handshake has read 987 bytes and written 239 bytes
> ---
> New, SSLv2, Cipher is DES-CBC3-MD5
> Server public key is 1024 bit
> SSL-Session:
>     Protocol  : SSLv2
>     Cipher    : DES-CBC3-MD5
> 
> 
> I beginning to think it can't be done.\?

I've used this in the past and it works just fine:

tls_cipher_list: DEFAULT:!SSLv2:!LOW:!EXPORT



-- 
Kenneth Murchison
Systems Programmer
Project Cyrus Developer/Maintainer
Carnegie Mellon University


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