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Reply to topic   Topic: SSLLABS warning for missing mandatory cipher suite
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jraute



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Location: Rheinland, Germany

PostPosted: Fri 01 Feb '19 11:46    Post subject: SSLLABS warning for missing mandatory cipher suite Reply with quote

People who want to check the security grade of their webserver/-pages often use ssllabs.com server test.

In fact ssllabs send a warning, when TLS1.3 configured sites do not have the so called "mandatory cipher suite" TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256.

Since this cipher uses only an AES 128 it's obvious that it is not of the same security strength/level as the other ones.

Does someone has information about a comparison between TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 and the other ones regarding the strength of the cipher suites?


Last edited by jraute on Wed 13 Feb '19 17:55; edited 1 time in total
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Jan-E



Joined: 09 Mar 2012
Posts: 1266
Location: Amsterdam, NL, EU

PostPosted: Fri 01 Feb '19 14:47    Post subject: Reply with quote

Strange thing: I enabled TLS v1.3, did not enable TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 in my ciphersuite and even then Apache uses TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 for TLS v1.3

Code:
SSLProtocol -ALL +TLSv1.3 +TLSv1.2 +TLSv1.1
SSLHonorCipherOrder On
SSLCipherSuite ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA


Results:
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=tfrtst.sessionportal.net&s=109.72.82.241

And:
https://www.htbridge.com/ssl/?id=7YPAy4ha
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James Blond
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Joined: 19 Jan 2006
Posts: 7374
Location: Germany, Next to Hamburg

PostPosted: Fri 01 Feb '19 15:52    Post subject: Reply with quote

@Jan-E
because you might use the default config.

There is the need of setting it for TLSv1.3

SSLCipherSuite TLSv1.3

See my SSL config and I get the warning, too, because I avoid 128 bit.

Code:

<If "%{SERVER_PORT} == '443'">
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
Header always set Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=15553000; preload"
</IfModule>
</If>

ProtocolsHonorOrder On
Protocols h2c h2 http/1.1

TraceEnable Off

SSLUseStapling On
SSLSessionCache shmcb:/opt/apache2/logs/ssl_gcache_data(512000)
SSLStaplingCache shmcb:/opt/apache2/logs/ssl_stapling_data(512000)
SSLOptions +StrictRequire +StdEnvVars -ExportCertData
SSLProtocol -all +TLSv1.2 +TLSv1.3
SSLCompression Off
SSLHonorCipherOrder On
SSLCipherSuite SSL ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA
SSLCipherSuite TLSv1.3 TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256

SSLOpenSSLConfCmd DHParameters "/opt/apache2/conf/dh4096.pem"
SSLOpenSSLConfCmd ECDHParameters secp384r1
SSLOpenSSLConfCmd Curves sect571r1:sect571k1:secp521r1:sect409k1:sect409r1:secp384r1:sect283k1:sect283r1:secp256k1:prime256v1

H2Direct On
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James Blond
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Joined: 19 Jan 2006
Posts: 7374
Location: Germany, Next to Hamburg

PostPosted: Fri 01 Feb '19 16:12    Post subject: Re: SSLLABS warning for missing mandatory cipher suite Reply with quote

jraute wrote:

Does someone has information about a comparison between TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 and the other ones regarding the strength of the cipher suites?


Sure it is wise to use Galois/Counter Mode (GCM). Comparing the TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 with TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 and TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256
both AES ones are mostly the same, except as you have mentioned the strengh. 128 vs 256.

ChaCha20/Poly vs AES is a different thing. There are a lot of opinions about that[1]. For mobile devices the Poly is faster because it is more CPU friendly if the CPU doesn't have native / built-in AES support. Also some crypto people say that there is a chance that AES will be cracked soon'ish. What ever that means.

I made a blog post why I chose the cipthers that I use[2]

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=poly+vs+aes
https://blog.cloudflare.com/it-takes-two-to-chacha-poly/
[2] https://mariobrandt.de/archives/apache/finding-the-right-ciphers-with-256-bit-alias-crypto-wars-part-nine-1206/
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glsmith
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Joined: 16 Oct 2007
Posts: 2268
Location: Sun Diego, USA

PostPosted: Sun 03 Feb '19 21:57    Post subject: Reply with quote

Interesting you have chacha first for TLS/1.2 but second in TLS/1.3. Any reason other than that's the order of OpenSSL's default?
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James Blond
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Joined: 19 Jan 2006
Posts: 7374
Location: Germany, Next to Hamburg

PostPosted: Mon 04 Feb '19 13:52    Post subject: Reply with quote

glsmith wrote:
Interesting you have chacha first for TLS/1.2 but second in TLS/1.3. Any reason other than that's the order of OpenSSL's default?


You got the mistake, I want Chacha in both cases to be the first Embarassed
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