TLS 1.2 ciphers

stephan13360 nginx-forum at nginx.us
Wed Aug 21 17:19:01 UTC 2013


Chrome 29 came out recently and now supports TLS 1.2. So i decided to add
some of the new TLS 1.2 ciphers to my webserver, which are specified here:
https://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/ciphers.html#TLS_v1_2_cipher_suites.

My current setup is: Ubuntu 10.04, Nginx 1.5.3 ,OpenSSL 1.0.1e (build
myself)
Config file:

server  {
    listen 80;
    server_name    sherbers.de;
    return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
}
server {
    listen 443 ssl spdy default_server;
    server_name    sherbers.de;

    ssl_certificate /etc/ssl/private/hosteurope/www.sherbers.de.pem;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/ssl/private/hosteurope/www.sherbers.de.key;
    ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
    ssl_ciphers
ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA;
    ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
    ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:10m;

As you can see i only use ciphers with perfect forward secrecy, because why
not. When i connect to my webserver chrome shows it is using TLS 1.2 but as
a cipher it using ECDHE-RSA, which it was using before too when i only
offered TLS 1.1, without any of the ECDHE-ECDSA ciphers.

Any idea why nginx doesn't offers the new cipers?

Additional information:

- An ssl check at https://sslcheck.globalsign.com doesn't list any of the
ECDHE-ECDSA ciphers
- "openssl ciphers -v | grep ECDHE-ECDSA" outputs the following:
ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 TLSv1.2 Kx=ECDH     Au=ECDSA Enc=AESGCM(256)
Mac=AEAD
ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384 TLSv1.2 Kx=ECDH     Au=ECDSA Enc=AES(256) 
Mac=SHA384
ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA  SSLv3 Kx=ECDH     Au=ECDSA Enc=AES(256)  Mac=SHA1
ECDHE-ECDSA-DES-CBC3-SHA SSLv3 Kx=ECDH     Au=ECDSA Enc=3DES(168) Mac=SHA1
ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 TLSv1.2 Kx=ECDH     Au=ECDSA Enc=AESGCM(128)
Mac=AEAD
ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256 TLSv1.2 Kx=ECDH     Au=ECDSA Enc=AES(128) 
Mac=SHA256
ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA  SSLv3 Kx=ECDH     Au=ECDSA Enc=AES(128)  Mac=SHA1
ECDHE-ECDSA-RC4-SHA     SSLv3 Kx=ECDH     Au=ECDSA Enc=RC4(128)  Mac=SHA1

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