mintls, maxtls, enclair, and cipher.

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Sun Feb 3 19:01:06 UTC 2019


Richard Laager <rlaager at wiktel.com>:
> If "cipher" is for TLS:

OK, that was the idea.

> Rename cipher to ciphers (plural) and add a second one named
> ciphersuites. You'll need two for testing anyway, as OpenSSL takes TLS
> 1.2 and 1.3 cipher specifications separately.
> 
> Then those are just done for the final scenario. Note that a single
> cipher name is a valid cipher list, which would force that particular
> cipher. So "ciphers" (plural) is usable exactly identically to how you
> have spec'ed cipher for testing, but is also useful in production.
> 
> The documentation should be something like:
> +ciphers+ _string_::
>   An OpenSSL cipher list to configure the allowed ciphers for TLS
> versions up to and including TLS 1.2.
> 
> +ciphersuites+ _string_::
>   An OpenSSL ciphersuite list to configure the allowed ciphersuites for
> TLS 1.3.

I guess it will have to be an empty string that disables encryption.

I will make this change and push.
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