[Cryptography] What TLS ciphersuites are still OK?

james hughes hughejp at mac.com
Tue Sep 10 10:58:06 EDT 2013



On Sep 9, 2013, at 9:10 PM, Tony Arcieri <bascule at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Ben Laurie <ben at links.org> wrote:
>> And the brief summary is: there's only one ciphersuite left that's good, and unfortunately its only available in TLS 1.2:
>> 
>> TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
> 
> A lot of people don't like GCM either ;) 

Yes, GCM does have implementation sensitivities particularly around the IV generation. That being said, the algorithm is better than most and the implementation sensitivity obvious (don't ever reuse an IV).
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