Centos 6.5 and ECDH ciphers in nginx.org Centos repo

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 5:10 AM, Nick Jenkin <nick at thenile.com.au> wrote:
> RHEL used 1.0.0 in 6.4, however in 6.5 it was updated to OpenSSL 1.0.1e-fips 11 Feb 2013
> See: https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html-single/6.5_Release_Notes/
>
> Like I said, if I compile nginx myself it ECDH works fine. It’s the nginx.org binaries that do not work. So it would appear the nginx.org binaries are statically compiled against the older version...

That's easy enought to check. Run ldd on it an look for an OpenSSL
dependency. If SSL/TLS is eanbled and the dependency is missing, then
nginx was statically linked against OpenSSL. Below, nginx was built
with a dependency on the shared object.

$ ldd objs/nginx
    linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fff85f96000)
    libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f9f0345b000)
    libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
(0x00007f9f0323f000)
    libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypt.so.1 (0x00007f9f03007000)
    libpcre.so.3 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcre.so.3 (0x00007f9f02dca000)
    libssl.so.1.0.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl.so.1.0.0
(0x00007f9f02b6a000)
    libcrypto.so.1.0.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so.1.0.0
(0x00007f9f02785000)
    ...

> so I guess the question is when will the nginx.org builds be built on 6.5?
Sorry, I can't help. I believe that's a question for the Red Hat or
CentOS folks.

Jeff

> On 6 Jan 2014, at 9:07 pm, Jeffrey Walton <noloader at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 10:56 PM, Nick Jenkin <nick at thenile.com.au> wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> In Centos 6.5 (and RHEL 6.5) the ECDH ciphers were enabled. There appears to be an issue with the nginx.org 1.5.8 Centos binaries still not having support for ECDHE despite having updated openssl 1.01e with elliptic curves.
>>>
>>> If I compile from source, ECDH works fine. Is there something wrong with the centos binaries?
>>>
>> http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/84283/how-can-i-get-tlsv1-2-support-in-apache-on-rhel6-centos-sl6
>>
>> Though the question is about Apache, it specifically calls out nginx
>> as needing a recompile on the platform after updating from OpenSSL
>> 1.0.0 to OpenSSL 1.0.1 due to static linking.
>>