Commit ea142a83 authored by Kamil Dudka's avatar Kamil Dudka
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openssl: use OpenSSL's default ciphers by default 

Up2date versions of OpenSSL maintain the default reasonably secure
without breaking compatibility, so it is better not to override the
default by curl.  Suggested at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1483972

Closes #1846
parent 25fc694a

lib/vtls/openssl.c

+14 −4
Original line number Diff line number Diff line
@@ -154,8 +154,16 @@ static unsigned long OpenSSL_version_num(void) 
#define OSSL_PACKAGE "OpenSSL"

#endif



#if (OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER >= 0x10100000L)

/* up2date versions of OpenSSL maintain the default reasonably secure without

 * breaking compatibility, so it is better not to override the default by curl

 */

#define DEFAULT_CIPHER_SELECTION NULL

#else

/* ... but it is not the case with old versions of OpenSSL */

#define DEFAULT_CIPHER_SELECTION \

  "ALL:!EXPORT:!EXPORT40:!EXPORT56:!aNULL:!LOW:!RC4:@STRENGTH"

#endif



struct ssl_backend_data {

  /* these ones requires specific SSL-types */
@@ -2116,11 +2124,13 @@ static CURLcode ossl_connect_step1(struct connectdata *conn, int sockindex) 
  ciphers = SSL_CONN_CONFIG(cipher_list);

  if(!ciphers)

    ciphers = (char *)DEFAULT_CIPHER_SELECTION;

  if(ciphers) {

    if(!SSL_CTX_set_cipher_list(BACKEND->ctx, ciphers)) {

      failf(data, "failed setting cipher list: %s", ciphers);

      return CURLE_SSL_CIPHER;

    }

    infof(data, "Cipher selection: %s\n", ciphers);

  }



#ifdef USE_TLS_SRP

  if(ssl_authtype == CURL_TLSAUTH_SRP) {