ssh_dh?

Daniel Miller

17 Dec 2018 17 Dec '18

12:30 a.m.

Don't know if this was corrected in 2.3.4 (haven't upgraded yet but didn't see it in the notes) - but in 2.3.3 I see this in my log:

imap-login: Error: Diffie-Hellman key exchange requested, but no DH parameters provided. Set ssh_dh=</path/to/dh.pem

So...either there's an undocumented feature of SSH-over-IMAP (that's Dovecot - always on the cutting edge!) or someone had a coffee shortage during a coding session...

-- Daniel

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Benny Pedersen

17 Dec 17 Dec

12:35 a.m.

Daniel Miller via dovecot skrev den 2018-12-16 23:30: So...either there's an undocumented feature of SSH-over-IMAP (that's

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Dovecot - always on the cutting edge!) or someone had a coffee shortage during a coding session...

its std way of drinking coffee :=)

https://www.sidorenko.io/post/2014/02/secure-ssl-configuration-for-apache-po...

make one for dovecot or reuse one from postfix

Alexander Dalloz

12:55 a.m.

Am 16.12.2018 um 23:30 schrieb Daniel Miller via dovecot:

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Don't know if this was corrected in 2.3.4 (haven't upgraded yet but didn't see it in the notes) - but in 2.3.3 I see this in my log:

imap-login: Error: Diffie-Hellman key exchange requested, but no DH parameters provided. Set ssh_dh=</path/to/dh.pem

So...either there's an undocumented feature of SSH-over-IMAP (that's Dovecot - always on the cutting edge!) or someone had a coffee shortage during a coding session...

# doveconf -n | egrep '(2.3|_dh)' # 2.3.4 (0ecbaf23d): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf ssl_dh = # hidden, use -P to show it

Alexander

C. Andrews Lavarre

3:42 a.m.

Daniel, as of 2.3.x, you have to create a dh.pem parameter file unless you can convert an existing parameter file: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/dovecot#Generate_DH_parame ters To generate a new DH parameters file (this will take very long):

	# openssl dhparam -out /etc/dovecot/dh.pem 4096


then add the file to /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-ssl.conf

ssl_dh = &lt;/etc/dovecot/dh.pem

This creates a file dh.pem. The dh.pem file contains the base g and modulo p. These parameters define how OpenSSL performs the Diffie- Hellman (DH) key-exchange.

More light reading: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/45963/diffie-hellm an-key-exchange-in-plain-english https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/94390/whats-the-pu rpose-of-dh-parameters

Yes it took a very long time, indeed five hours in my case. But now it works. I took a nap and listened to Messiah while it ground away...

Enjoy...

:-)