The default enabled ciphers configured by enabling SSL in the RHDS Admin Console contain unsupported ciphers

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Issue

  • When I use the redhat-idm-console to enable SSL support for a directory server, the ciphers as displayed in the attachment picture are used by default.
  • When I look at the LDIF in question which is being used, this is what happens:

    replace: nsSSL3Ciphers
    nsSSL3Ciphers: -rsa_null_md5,-rsa_null_sha,+rsa_rc4_128_md5,+rsa_rc4_40_md5,+r
     sa_rc2_40_md5,+rsa_des_sha,+rsa_fips_des_sha,+rsa_3des_sha,+rsa_fips_3des_sha
     ,+fortezza,+fortezza_rc4_128_sha,+fortezza_null,+tls_rsa_export1024_with_rc4_
     56_sha,+tls_rsa_export1024_with_des_cbc_sha,+tls_rsa_aes_128_sha,+tls_rsa_aes
     _256_sha
    
  • When I restart the Directory Server using these settings, I get the following string of error messages in the error log:

    [07/Oct/2015:16:57:21 +0200] - SSL alert: Cipher suite fortezza is not available in NSS 3.19.  Ignoring fortezza
    [07/Oct/2015:16:57:21 +0200] - SSL alert: Cipher suite fortezza_rc4_128_sha is not available in NSS 3.19.  Ignoring fortezza_rc4_128_sha
    [07/Oct/2015:16:57:21 +0200] - SSL alert: Cipher suite fortezza_null is not available in NSS 3.19.  Ignoring fortezza_null
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Directory Server (RHDS) 10.0
  • 389-ds-base-1.3.3.1-20.el7_1

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