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Assistance in cipher
Hi All
Need assistance to enable below standards in SSL enabled VIP
Standardize configuration for SSL enabled external sites to use industry best practices, such as: - Use only AES -256 ciphers - Use only strong hashing with a minimum of SHA1 - Set all systems to TLS v1.2 - Disable SSLv2 and SSLv3
Kindly advice which are the steps to be used to meet above standards
my bigip ver : LTM : BIG-IP 11.2.1 Build 862.0 Hotfix HF2
6 Replies
- Vitaliy_Savrans
Nacreous
Hi, I think this link will be useful for you https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/13000/100/sol13171.html
- Rajendran2002_1
Nimbostratus
looks the link is not valid.. Kindly share the right link
- AnonymousI fixed his link. It was missing the L in html.
- Kevin_Stewart
Employee
So what you're looking at is the cipher string that makes up the DEFAULT stack on any given platform. For 11.2 the DEFAULT stack is:
NATIVE:!MD5:!EXPORT:!DES:!DHE:!EDH:@SPEEDwhich negated things like DES and MD5 but still supports SSLv3. At a minimum you'll want to extend this to negate SSLv2 and SSLv3:
DEFAULT:!SSLv2:!SSLv3But your absolute best bet is to upgrade your system to at least 11.5.0 with all of the hotfixes.
- Rajendran2002_1
Nimbostratus
I want to perform
AES -256 ciphers - Use only strong hashing with a minimum of SHA1 - Set all systems to TLS v1.2 - Disable SSLv2 and SSLv3
will below command on cipher option works?
DEFAULT:AES256-SHA:!SSLv2:!SSLv3:!TLSv1_0
- Kevin_Stewart
Employee
I don't have an 11.2 system in front of me to test, but you can do the following from the BIG-IP command line:
tmm --clientciphers 'DEFAULT:AES256-SHA:!SSLv2:!SSLv3:!TLSv1_0'This will produce a list of cipher strings (in the DEFAULT stack) that meet these qualifications. You should be able to check for your requirements from within this list.
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