tls: update default ciphers to use gcm and aes128

AES-GCM or CHACHA20_POLY1305 ciphers must be used in current version of
Chrome to avoid an 'obsolete cryptography' warning.

Prefer 128 bit AES over 192 and 256 bit AES considering attacks that
specifically affect the larger key sizes but do not affect AES 128.

PR-URL: https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1660
Reviewed-By: Fedor Indutny <fedor@indutny.com>
Reviewed-By: Shigeki Ohtsu <ohtsu@iij.ad.jp>
Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io>
pull/1660/merge
Mike MacCana 2015-05-08 19:54:34 +01:00 committed by Roman Reiss
parent 18d457bd34
commit 5755fc099f
2 changed files with 39 additions and 9 deletions

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@ -141,14 +141,37 @@ automatically set as a listener for the [secureConnection][] event. The
- `ciphers`: A string describing the ciphers to use or exclude, seperated by
`:`. The default cipher suite is:
ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256:
DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:
HIGH:!aNULL:!eNULL:!EXPORT:!DES:!RC4:!MD5:!PSK:!SRP:!CAMELLIA
ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:
ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:
ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:
ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:
DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:
ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:
DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:
ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:
DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:
ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256:
DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256:
HIGH:
!aNULL:
!eNULL:
!EXPORT:
!DES:
!RC4:
!MD5:
!PSK:
!SRP:
!CAMELLIA
The default cipher suite prefers ECDHE and DHE ciphers for Perfect Forward
secrecy, while offering *some* backward compatibiltity. Old clients which
rely on insecure and deprecated RC4 or DES-based ciphers (like Internet
Explorer 6) aren't able to complete the handshake with the default
The default cipher suite prefers GCM ciphers for [Chrome's 'modern
cryptography' setting] and also prefers ECDHE and DHE ciphers for Perfect
Forward secrecy, while offering *some* backward compatibiltity.
128 bit AES is preferred over 192 and 256 bit AES in light of [specific
attacks affecting larger AES key sizes].
Old clients that rely on insecure and deprecated RC4 or DES-based ciphers
(like Internet Explorer 6) aren't able to complete the handshake with the default
configuration. If you absolutely must support these clients, the
[TLS recommendations] may offer a compatible cipher suite. For more details
on the format, see the [OpenSSL cipher list format documentation].
@ -784,6 +807,8 @@ The string representation of the local IP address.
The numeric representation of the local port.
[OpenSSL cipher list format documentation]: http://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/ciphers.html#CIPHER_LIST_FORMAT
[Chrome's 'modern cryptography' setting]: http://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/education/tls#TOC-Deprecation-of-TLS-Features-Algorithms-in-Chrome
[specific attacks affecting larger AES key sizes]: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/07/another_new_aes.html
[BEAST attacks]: http://blog.ivanristic.com/2011/10/mitigating-the-beast-attack-on-tls.html
[tls.createServer]: #tls_tls_createserver_options_secureconnectionlistener
[tls.createSecurePair]: #tls_tls_createsecurepair_context_isserver_requestcert_rejectunauthorized

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@ -15,12 +15,17 @@ exports.CLIENT_RENEG_WINDOW = 600;
exports.SLAB_BUFFER_SIZE = 10 * 1024 * 1024;
exports.DEFAULT_CIPHERS = [
'ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256',
'ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256',
'ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384',
'ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384',
'DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256',
'ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256',
'DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256',
'ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384',
'DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384',
'ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256',
'DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256',
'ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256',
'DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256',
'HIGH',
'!aNULL',
'!eNULL',