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Cipher Rules And Groups in BIG-IP v13

My mother used to always tell me two things before I left for school in the morning. Be wary of what ciphers your application supports Never use the Default cipher list unless you have compatibi...
Updated Jun 05, 2023
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Sep 25, 2019

It's good to know that you provide fine tuning for people who want to go deep in cipher management, but I would also appreciate a more intuitive approach for those who don't want to spend too much time in deciding what is good or wrong, based on Mozilla's recommandations for instance : max compatibility (not recommended) / Intermediate / Modern (max security) / Custom...

 

I'm surprised to see that in v14 the default "Clientssl" profile comes with the "No TLSv1.3" option enabled, why did you chose to exclude it by default ?

 

Also, why does the Cipher Rule "f5-default" comes with TLS1.3 whereas "f5-secure" doesn't use it ? I would have expected the opposite

 

Thanks anyway for the effort

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