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Security Sidebar: Improving Your SSL Labs Test Grade

Encrypt everything.  That's what Google Chairman Eric Schmidt recently said.  His comments were in response to various surveillance efforts that he considered government overreach and censorship.  Hi...
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ltwagnon
Ret. Employee
Mar 08, 2016

Here's a profile configuration that received an A+ grade recently:

ltm profile client-ssl {
    app-service none
    cert-key-chain {        default {            cert default.crt            key default.key        }    }
    ciphers !LOW:!SSLv3:!MD5:!RC4-SHA:!EXPORT:!DHE:ECDHE+AES-GCM:DHE+AES-GCM:ECDHE+AES:ECDHE-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:DHE+AES:AES-GCM+RSA:RSA+AES:RSA+3DES:@SPEED
    defaults-from clientssl
    inherit-certkeychain false
}

ltm policy {
    controls { asm forwarding }
    requires { http }
    rules {        default {            actions {                0 {
                    http-header
                    response
                    insert
                    name Strict-Transport-Security
                    value max-age=15552000
                }            }
            ordinal 0
        }    }
    strategy first-match