I have been reading up on TLS and Dovecot and came across this URL: https://www.weakdh.org/sysadmin.html which recommended these settings for Dovecot. I would like to know if they are correct? Some much documentation on the web is pure garbage.
Dovecot
These changes should be made in /etc/dovecot.conf
Cipher Suites
ssl_cipher_list=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-DSS-AES128-GCM-SHA256:kEDH+AESGCM:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:DHE-DSS-AES128-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256:DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:AES128-GCM-SHA256:AES256-GCM-SHA384:AES128-SHA256:AES256-SHA256:AES128-SHA:AES256-SHA:AES:CAMELLIA:DES-CBC3-SHA:!aNULL:!eNULL:!EXPORT:!DES:!RC4:!MD5:!PSK:!aECDH:!EDH-DSS-DES-CBC3-SHA:!EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:!KRB5-DES-CBC3-SHA
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers = yes (Dovecot 2.2.6 or greater)
DH parameters
#regenerates every week ssl_dh_parameters_length = 2048
Contrary to what the site recommends, I would have thought that changes should be made in the "10-ssl.conf" file. I am running "Dovecot 2.2.28" on a FreeBSD-11 machine with OpenSSL 1.0.2k, if that makes any difference.
Thanks
-- Jerry