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Dec 13, 2017

TMUI / Configuration WebUI - TLS/SSL Configuration - ECDHE

Hi All, I'm currently using BIG-IP 11.6.2 HF1. I'm required to secure the Management WebUI ciphers offered out. I'd prefer to drop all key exchange methods except for ECDHE. However, it seems...
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    nitass
    Dec 21, 2017

    But the point being is that the command sys httpd ssl-ciphersuite on 11.6.x, doesn't seem to then correctly configure Apache services to use this for the TMUI.

     

    i understand this has been corrected in 12.0.

     

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Hi JD,

 

It is possible to disable all cipher suites other than the ones using ECDHE by appending ':!kDH:!kEDH:!kRSA' (without the quotes) to your cipher string within httpd. That should disable all DH, EDH/DHE, RSA key exchange based cipher suites. We need to specify the 'k' when enabling/disabling a certain key exchange when you modify the string on httpd, as it's based on the openssl stack. When enabling/disabling them within the SSL profiles, you don't need to specify that, because that is natively built into TMM and you can simply specify ':!DHE:!DH:!RSA' (without the quotes) to disable those key exchange based cipher suites.

 

Please let me know if this answers your question.

 

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Dec 14, 2017

Hi Ashwin,

 

Thanks for the reply.

 

ECDHE needs to be there to begin with though, and isn't. It looks like 12.x does have it when I took it to lab. But I currently need it in 11.6.2.

 

As for SSL profiles, I'm not looking at/referring to SSL profiles as this is outside of TMM and is Apache via mod_ssl (configured via the sys httpd ssl-ciphersuites).

 

If there's anyway to enable ECDHE for Apache/Mod_SSL on 11.6.2, I'm all ears.

 

Thanks,

 

JD