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Forcing 128bit ssl on CSS11506 ?

dclee
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We currently use a CSS11506 as our reverse

proxy for all inbound ssl connections. It has the SSL mod installed.

A recent VA discovered that the CSS allows both 56bit and 128bit ssl connections.

Is there a way on the CSS to force only 128bit ssl connections thru ?

Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers


Dave

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Gilles Dufour
Cisco Employee
Cisco Employee

Dave,

if you do not configure the ssl cipher for 56 bits encryption the CSS will not accept this level of encryption.

The ciphers are defined as follow :

  ssl-server 1 cipher rsa-with-rc4-128-md5 192.168.20.222 81
  ssl-server 1 cipher rsa-with-rc4-128-sha 192.168.20.222 81

Here is the list of ciphers we do accept

CSS11503-2(config-ssl-proxy-list[gdufour])# ssl-server 1 cipher ?
  all-cipher-suites
  dhe-dss-export1024-with-rc4-56-sha
  rsa-export1024-with-rc4-56-sha
  dhe-dss-export1024-with-des-cbc-sha
  rsa-export1024-with-des-cbc-sha
  dh-anon-export-with-des40-cbc-sha
  dh-anon-export-with-rc4-40-md5
  dhe-rsa-export-with-des40-cbc-sha
  dhe-dss-export-with-des40-cbc-sha
  rsa-export-with-des40-cbc-sha
  rsa-export-with-rc4-40-md5
  dhe-dss-with-rc4-128-sha
  dh-anon-with-3des-ede-cbc-sha
  dh-anon-with-des-cbc-sha
  dh-anon-with-rc4-128-md5
  dhe-rsa-with-3des-ede-cbc-sha
  dhe-rsa-with-des-cbc-sha
  dhe-dss-with-3des-ede-cbc-sha
  dhe-dss-with-des-cbc-sha
  rsa-with-3des-ede-cbc-sha
  rsa-with-des-cbc-sha
  rsa-with-rc4-128-sha
  rsa-with-rc4-128-md5

So, only configure the ones you need.

Gilles.

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Gilles Dufour
Cisco Employee
Cisco Employee

Dave,

if you do not configure the ssl cipher for 56 bits encryption the CSS will not accept this level of encryption.

The ciphers are defined as follow :

  ssl-server 1 cipher rsa-with-rc4-128-md5 192.168.20.222 81
  ssl-server 1 cipher rsa-with-rc4-128-sha 192.168.20.222 81

Here is the list of ciphers we do accept

CSS11503-2(config-ssl-proxy-list[gdufour])# ssl-server 1 cipher ?
  all-cipher-suites
  dhe-dss-export1024-with-rc4-56-sha
  rsa-export1024-with-rc4-56-sha
  dhe-dss-export1024-with-des-cbc-sha
  rsa-export1024-with-des-cbc-sha
  dh-anon-export-with-des40-cbc-sha
  dh-anon-export-with-rc4-40-md5
  dhe-rsa-export-with-des40-cbc-sha
  dhe-dss-export-with-des40-cbc-sha
  rsa-export-with-des40-cbc-sha
  rsa-export-with-rc4-40-md5
  dhe-dss-with-rc4-128-sha
  dh-anon-with-3des-ede-cbc-sha
  dh-anon-with-des-cbc-sha
  dh-anon-with-rc4-128-md5
  dhe-rsa-with-3des-ede-cbc-sha
  dhe-rsa-with-des-cbc-sha
  dhe-dss-with-3des-ede-cbc-sha
  dhe-dss-with-des-cbc-sha
  rsa-with-3des-ede-cbc-sha
  rsa-with-des-cbc-sha
  rsa-with-rc4-128-sha
  rsa-with-rc4-128-md5

So, only configure the ones you need.

Gilles.

Thanks for the reply, much appreciated

Cheers


Dave