Unable to disable TLSv1.3 or fallback to TLSv1.2 when 1 cipher is disabled
Steve Egbert
s.egbert at sbcglobal.net
Fri May 8 18:43:35 EEST 2020
I have an operational need to disable TLSv1.3 due to inadequate support
to exclude certain ciphers.
Much to my dismay, the `ssl_protocols` had been renamed and
re-functionalized into `ssl_min_protocol`.
Now, there is no way to exclude a specific group of one or more TLS
versions.
For a new bug report, I think we need two new settings:
* `ssl_tls13_ciphersuite` and
* `ssl_tls10_cipher`
settings introduced into Dovecot for better granularity.
ALong with support for fallback to TLSv1.2 as outlined in
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1250568
I'm still being hammered with the following error with Thunderbird
76.0b3, Dovecot 2.3.4.1-5+deb10u1, Debian 11:
May 8 11:15:47 ns1 dovecot: imap-login: Debug: SSL: where=0x10, ret=1:
before SSL initialization
May 8 11:15:47 ns1 dovecot: imap-login: Debug: SSL: where=0x2001,
ret=1: before SSL initialization
May 8 11:15:47 ns1 dovecot: imap-login: Debug: SSL: where=0x2002,
ret=-1: before SSL initialization
May 8 11:15:47 ns1 dovecot: imap-login: Debug: SSL: where=0x2001,
ret=1: before SSL initialization
May 8 11:15:47 ns1 dovecot: imap-login: Debug: SSL alert: where=0x4008,
ret=582: fatal protocol version
May 8 11:15:47 ns1 dovecot: imap-login: Debug: SSL: where=0x2002,
ret=-1: error
May 8 11:15:47 ns1 dovecot: imap-login: Debug: SSL error: SSL_accept()
failed: error:14209102:SSL
routines:tls_early_post_process_client_hello:unsupported protocol
May 8 11:15:47 ns1 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (disconnected
before auth was ready, waited 0 secs): user=<>, rip=XX.XX.XX.XX,
lip=XX.XX.XX.XX, TLS handshaking: SSL_accept() failed:
error:14209102:SSL
routines:tls_early_post_process_client_hello:unsupported protocol,
session=<GN/GeCSlYuhEhl2U>
May 8 11:15:47 ns1 dovecot: imap-login: Debug: SSL error: SSL_accept()
syscall failed: Invalid argument
This occurred when specifying one TLSv1.3 cipher to be excluded in
ssl_cipher via an exclamation mark.
On a side note of IMAP client, Latest Mozilla Thunderbird had its pref
setting security.tls.version.fallback-limit to 4 (TLSv1.3), of which I
have adjusted it to 3 (TLSv1.2) and it .... works when Dovecot is set to
TLSv1.2.
(Details of Thunderbird security.tls.version.fallback-limit is given in
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Security.tls.version.* )
Steve
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