proper setup for forward secrecy

Maxim Dounin mdounin at mdounin.ru
Wed Sep 19 13:49:48 UTC 2012


Hello!

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 04:34:30AM -0400, eiji-gravion wrote:

> Still curious about this, it would be nice to have a way to rotate these
> keys without having to restart the server.

Looking though OpenSSL code suggests keys are generated on SSL_CTX 
creation (at least as of OpenSSL 1.0.1c, see SSL_CTX_new() in 
ssl/ssl_lib.c), that is, they are rotated by nginx configuration 
reload.

Maxim Dounin



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