How Cygwin counters man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Mar  8 20:44, Achim Gratz wrote:
> David A. Wheeler writes:
> >    I checked Cygwin.com's SSL/TLS implementation using Qualsys
> >    ( https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/ ). Cygwin.com got an overall rating
> >    of "B" (capped because it permits the RC4 cipher).

Isn't that rather due to the IDEA cypher:

> | Not valid after:  2016-05-20T11:00:00+00:00
> | MD5:   d888 b3ed 9f0f f8d1 5b57 fdd7 5122 bb53
> |_SHA-1: 349e 7f24 e249 2256 af2d 15a9 2883 ce84 4a40 a88f
> | ssl-enum-ciphers: 
> |   SSLv3: No supported ciphers found
> |   TLSv1.0: 
> |     ciphers: 
> |       TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA - strong
> |       TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_CAMELLIA_256_CBC_SHA - strong
> |       TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_SEED_CBC_SHA - strong
> |       TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA - strong
> |       TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA - strong
> |       TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA - strong
> |       TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA - strong
> |       TLS_RSA_WITH_CAMELLIA_128_CBC_SHA - strong
> |       TLS_RSA_WITH_IDEA_CBC_SHA - weak
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Also, again, Cygwin is just one project on sourceware.org.  It would be
nice if concerns like this would be addresses to the overseers mailing
list.


Corinna

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