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Saturday, March 29, 2008

Recommended SSLCipherSuite configurations for Apache

UPDATE 2008-06-25: Here's my current recommendation (the rest is left for historical context).
SSLCipherSuite DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA: AES256-SHA:DES-CBC3-SHA:AES128-SHA:RC4-SHA

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The completist (Thawte-style)

SSLCipherSuite DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA: AES256-SHA:DES-CBC3-SHA:AES128-SHA:RC4-SHA:RC4-MD5

The minimalist (Microsoft-style)

SSLCipherSuite AES128-SHA:AES256-SHA:RC4-SHA:DES-CBC3-SHA:RC4-MD5

For the Comodo version of the minimalist, swap the order of the 2 AES ciphers.

UPDATE 2008-04-04: Slight change to the minimalist config based on more detailed results from the new tool. This also means that the Comodo config is not what is stated above, but is instead:

The descending minimalist (Comodo-style)

SSLCipherSuite AES256-SHA:AES128-SHA:DES-CBC3-SHA:RC4-SHA:RC4-MD5

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