From: | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)iki(dot)fi> |
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To: | pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | pgsql: Always use 2048 bit DH parameters for OpenSSL ephemeral DH ciphe |
Date: | 2017-07-31 19:41:09 |
Message-ID: | E1dcGYv-00007W-N6@gemulon.postgresql.org |
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Always use 2048 bit DH parameters for OpenSSL ephemeral DH ciphers.
1024 bits is considered weak these days, but OpenSSL always passes 1024 as
the key length to the tmp_dh callback. All the code to handle other key
lengths is, in fact, dead.
To remedy those issues:
* Only include hard-coded 2048-bit parameters.
* Set the parameters directly with SSL_CTX_set_tmp_dh(), without the
callback
* The name of the file containing the DH parameters is now a GUC. This
replaces the old hardcoded "dh1024.pem" filename. (The files for other
key lengths, dh512.pem, dh2048.pem, etc. were never actually used.)
This is not a new problem, but it doesn't seem worth the risk and churn to
backport. If you care enough about the strength of the DH parameters on
old versions, you can create custom DH parameters, with as many bits as you
wish, and put them in the "dh1024.pem" file.
Per report by Nicolas Guini and Damian Quiroga. Reviewed by Michael Paquier.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAMxBoUyjOOautVozN6ofzym828aNrDjuCcOTcCquxjwS-L2hGQ@mail.gmail.com
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master
Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/c0a15e07cd718cb6e455e68328f522ac076a0e4b
Modified Files
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doc/src/sgml/config.sgml | 24 +++
src/backend/libpq/be-secure-openssl.c | 264 +++++++++-----------------
src/backend/libpq/be-secure.c | 1 +
src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c | 11 ++
src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample | 1 +
src/include/libpq/libpq.h | 1 +
6 files changed, 133 insertions(+), 169 deletions(-)
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