Just generate new parameters on some machine with good entropy source.



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Aki Tuomi
Dovecot oy

-------- Original message --------
From: Kai Schaetzl <maillists@conactive.com>
Date: 19/08/2018 18:08 (GMT+02:00)
To: dovecot@dovecot.org
Subject: creation of ssl-parameters fails

I did that the last time one year ago, now on another machine with the
same software (Ubuntu 16.04) it fails.

openssl dhparam 4096 > /var/lib/dovecot/ssl-parameters.dat
dd if=/var/lib/dovecot/ssl-parameters.dat bs=1 skip=88 | openssl dhparam
-inform der > /etc/dovecot/dh.pem
last command fails with

681+0 records in
681+0 records out
681 bytes copied, 0,00278343 s, 245 kB/s
unable to load DH parameters
139858178938624:error:0D0680A8:asn1 encoding
routines:asn1_check_tlen:wrong tag:../crypto/asn1/tasn_dec.c:1129:
139858178938624:error:0D07803A:asn1 encoding
routines:asn1_item_embed_d2i:nested asn1
error:../crypto/asn1/tasn_dec.c:289:Type=DH

ssl-parameters.dat is more than double the size as the one that worked.
And that one I can still transform:

272+0 records in
272+0 records out
272 bytes copied, 0,00105017 s, 259 kB/s

So, something with
openssl dhparam 4096 > /var/lib/dovecot/ssl-parameters.dat
must be wrong. But what?
https://wiki.dovecot.org/SSL/DovecotConfiguration
tells to use this command.

Thanks!

Kai