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Issue

How to disable disable the use of DES based cipher suites.
An internal vulnerabitity assestment discover a potential problem with etcd port 2379 and port 2380 on master node because support connection using cipher TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA and TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA.
We are able to see that the vulnerable cipher TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA is still active on port 2379 (ETCD).
etcd, as installed in OpenShift, currently has no mechanism for disabling weaker TLS ciphers.

Environment

OpenShift Container Platform 3.9
etcd

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