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Vikram_23_27012's avatar
Vikram_23_27012
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Oct 23, 2018

disable CBC cipher

Hi guys,   I tried to disable below cipher (customer requirement): TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384 TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256   even though I verified from cli that the configu...
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Kevin_Stewart
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Oct 25, 2018

A few thoughts.

  • It might be an anomalous indication. You could actually test for CBC support with a cURL request using a CBC cipher (only).

  • Given that you're specifying a very small, specific set of ciphers, it might be easier to simply list these in the cipher string:

    ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256