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NimbostratusSetting ciphers manually in BIG IP
I have BIG IP v 11.6.1 and need to manual set the ciphers. Here is the list of ciphers, in order, of what I want. I have been unable to make this happen. Can someone assist?
Cipher | Suite (hex value) | Bits |Protocols | Key Exchange | Authentication | Cipher | MAC
ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (0xc030)256TLS1.2ECDHERSAAES-GCMSHA384
ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (0xc02c)256TLS1.2ECDHEECDSAAES-GCMSHA384
ECDH-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (0xc032)256TLS1.2ECDHRSAAES-GCMSHA384
ECDH-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (0xc02e)256TLS1.2ECDHECDSAAES-GCMSHA384
ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384 (0xc028)256TLS1.2ECDHERSAAESSHA384
ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384 (0xc024)256TLS1.2ECDHEECDSAAESSHA384
DHE-DSS-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (0xa3)256TLS1.2DHEDSSAES-GCMSHA384
DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (0x9f)256TLS1.2EDHRSAAES-GCMSHA384
ECDH-RSA-AES256-SHA384 (0xc02a) 256TLS1.2ECDHRSAAESSHA384
ECDH-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384 (0xc026)256TLS1.2ECDHECDSAAESSHA384
AES256-GCM-SHA384 (0x9d) 256TLS1.2RSARSAAES-GCMSHA384
DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256 (0x6b) 256TLS1.2EDHRSAAESSHA256
DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA256 (0x6a) 256TLS1.2DHEDSSAESSHA256
AES256-SHA256 (0x3d) 256TLS1.2RSARSAAESSHA256
ECDHE-RSA-AES256-CBC-SHA (0xc014)256TLS1, TLS1.1, TLS1.2ECDHERSAAESSHA
ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA (0xc00a) 256TLS1, TLS1.1, TLS1.2ECDHEECDSAAESSHA
ECDH-RSA-AES256-SHA (0xc00f) 256TLS1, TLS1.1, TLS1.2ECDHRSAAESSHA
ECDH-ECDSA-AES256-SHA (0xc005) 256TLS1, TLS1.1, TLS1.2ECDHECDSAAESSHA
DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (0x39) 256SSL3, TLS1, TLS1.1, TLS1.2, DTLS1EDHRSAAESSHA
DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA (0x38) 256SSL3, TLS1, TLS1.1, TLS1.2, DTLS1DHEDSSAESSHA
AES256-SHA (0x35) 256SSL3, TLS1, TLS1.1, TLS1.2, DTLS1RSARSAAESSHA
11 Replies
LoyalSoldierAltostratus
F5 article on configuring ciphers: https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K13171
See the result of a string on a device via CLI bash with this command:
tmm --clientciphers ''Example:
tmm --clientciphers 'NATIVE:ECDHE+AES:ECDHE+3DES:ECDHE+RSA:!SSLv3:!TLSv1:!EXPORT:!DH:!ADH:!LOW:!MD5:!RC4:RSA+AES:RSA+3DES:@STRENGTH'The "@STRENGTH" tells it to sort the ciphers by strength, strongest first.
Also see: F5 SSL Everywhere Recommended Practices
https://f5.com/Portals/1/Premium/Architectures/RA-SSL-Everywhere-deployment-guide.pdfOnce you have a cipher string you want, add it to your SSL profile, sshd, or httpd.
SFiddy_313786This is information I already was aware of. My problem is the getting the exact ciphers in the exact order as my original post. I haven't figured out that string and I have spent quite a bit of time formatting and testing. I am looking for assistance from someone who can show me.
- P_K
what version of bigip is it?
- LoyalSoldier
SFiddy,
 
Have you seen this article? Looks like it might help with what you are trying to do. https://devcentral.f5.com/s/feed/0D51T00006i7buMSAQ
 
Another article, that includes a example of testing them: https://devcentral.f5.com/s/articles/ssl-profiles-part-4-cipher-suites
 
LoyalSoldier_28F5 article on configuring ciphers: https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K13171
See the result of a string on a device via CLI bash with this command:
tmm --clientciphers ''Example:
tmm --clientciphers 'NATIVE:ECDHE+AES:ECDHE+3DES:ECDHE+RSA:!SSLv3:!TLSv1:!EXPORT:!DH:!ADH:!LOW:!MD5:!RC4:RSA+AES:RSA+3DES:@STRENGTH'The "@STRENGTH" tells it to sort the ciphers by strength, strongest first.
Also see: F5 SSL Everywhere Recommended Practices
https://f5.com/Portals/1/Premium/Architectures/RA-SSL-Everywhere-deployment-guide.pdfOnce you have a cipher string you want, add it to your SSL profile, sshd, or httpd.
- SFiddy_313786
This is information I already was aware of. My problem is the getting the exact ciphers in the exact order as my original post. I haven't figured out that string and I have spent quite a bit of time formatting and testing. I am looking for assistance from someone who can show me.
- P_K
what version of bigip is it?
- LoyalSoldier_28
SFiddy,
 
Have you seen this article? Looks like it might help with what you are trying to do. https://devcentral.f5.com/s/feed/0D51T00006i7buMSAQ
 
Another article, that includes a example of testing them: https://devcentral.f5.com/s/articles/ssl-profiles-part-4-cipher-suites
 
amintejCirrus
I recommend you using the command tmm --clientciphers 'DEFAULT' for cheking de default configuration. Output Example:
[root@localhost:Active:Standalone] config tmm --clientciphers 'DEFAULT'
ID SUITE BITS PROT METHOD CIPHER MAC KEYX 0: 5 RC4-SHA 128 SSL3 Native RC4 SHA RSA 1: 5 RC4-SHA 128 TLS1 Native RC4 SHA RSA 2: 5 RC4-SHA 128 TLS1.1 Native RC4 SHA RSA 3: 5 RC4-SHA 128 TLS1.2 Native RC4 SHA RSA 4: 47 AES128-SHA 128 SSL3 Native AES SHA RSA 5: 47 AES128-SHA 128 TLS1 Native AES SHA RSA 6: 47 AES128-SHA 128 TLS1.1 Native AES SHA RSA 7: 47 AES128-SHA 128 TLS1.2 Native AES SHA RSA 8: 47 AES128-SHA 128 DTLS1 Native AES SHA RSA 9: 53 AES256-SHA 256 SSL3 Native AES SHA RSA 10: 53 AES256-SHA 256 TLS1 Native AES SHA RSA 11: 53 AES256-SHA 256 TLS1.1 Native AES SHA RSA 12: 53 AES256-SHA 256 TLS1.2 Native AES SHA RSA 13: 53 AES256-SHA 256 DTLS1 Native AES SHA RSA 14: 10 DES-CBC3-SHA 192 SSL3 Native DES SHA RSA 15: 10 DES-CBC3-SHA 192 TLS1 Native DES SHA RSA 16: 10 DES-CBC3-SHA 192 TLS1.1 Native DES SHA RSA 17: 10 DES-CBC3-SHA 192 TLS1.2 Native DES SHA RSA 18: 10 DES-CBC3-SHA 192 DTLS1 Native DES SHA RSA 19: 60 AES128-SHA256 128 TLS1.2 Native AES SHA256 RSA 20: 61 AES256-SHA256 256 TLS1.2 Native AES SHA256 RSA 21: 49171 ECDHE-RSA-AES128-CBC-SHA 128 TLS1 Native AES SHA ECDHE_RSA 22: 49171 ECDHE-RSA-AES128-CBC-SHA 128 TLS1.1 Native AES SHA ECDHE_RSA 23: 49171 ECDHE-RSA-AES128-CBC-SHA 128 TLS1.2 Native AES SHA ECDHE_RSA 24: 49172 ECDHE-RSA-AES256-CBC-SHA 256 TLS1 Native AES SHA ECDHE_RSA 25: 49172 ECDHE-RSA-AES256-CBC-SHA 256 TLS1.1 Native AES SHA ECDHE_RSA 26: 49172 ECDHE-RSA-AES256-CBC-SHA 256 TLS1.2 Native AES SHA ECDHE_RSA 27: 49170 ECDHE-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA 192 TLS1 Native DES SHA ECDHE_RSA 28: 49170 ECDHE-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA 192 TLS1.1 Native DES SHA ECDHE_RSA 29: 49170 ECDHE-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA 192 TLS1.2 Native DES SHA ECDHE_RSA
Translation is (this command will print the same output):
tmm --clientciphers 'RC4-SHA:AES128-SHA:AES256-SHA:DES-CBC3-SHA:AES128-SHA256:AES256-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-CBC-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-CBC-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA'
The general idea is ordering suites (third column of the output), in this example: RC4-SHA:AES128-SHA:AES256-SHA etc.. and testing with tmm --clientciphers 'ORDERED SUITES'
