nginx and ephemeral Diffie-Hellman keys

Jauder Ho lists at ruby-forum.com
Sat Jun 14 12:59:10 MSD 2008


Having the option would still beneficial since the capability is already 
there.

Igor Sysoev wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 08:09:13AM +0400, Igor Sysoev wrote:
> 
>> > 
>> > Key should be changed out every so often.
>> > 
>> >   - o Diffie-Hellman-Parameters for temporary keys are hardcoded in
>> >   -   ssl_engine_dh.c, while the comment in ssl_engine_kernel.c says:
>> >   -   "it is suggested that keys be changed daily or every 500
>> >   -    transactions, and more often if possible."
>> 
>> Nevertheless Apache still uses hardcoded DH parameters and does not allow
>> to override them.
> 
> Looking in Apache repo: modern DH params in Apache/2 are 3 years old,
> Apache's 1.3 DH params are 9 years old.
> 
> It's seems thare is no need to override them using ssl_dhparam.

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