RFR: 8279164: Disable TLS_ECDH_* cipher suites [v2]

Bradford Wetmore wetmore at openjdk.org
Fri Nov 4 00:29:34 UTC 2022


On Thu, 3 Nov 2022 20:39:52 GMT, Sean Mullan <mullan at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This change will disable TLS_ECDH_* cipher suites by default. These cipher suites do not preserve forward secrecy and are rarely used in practice. See the CSR for more details and rationale.
>> 
>> Users will still be able to enable the suites (at their own risk) by removing "ECDH" from the `jdk.tls.disabledAlgorithms` security property.
>
> Sean Mullan has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains two additional commits since the last revision:
> 
>  - Merge
>  - Initial revision.

LGTM other than the typos.

test/jdk/javax/net/ssl/sanity/ciphersuites/CheckCipherSuites.java line 85:

> 83:         "TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256",
> 84: 
> 85:         // AES_256(GCM) - not forward screcy

Can you please fix the rest of the"screcy" typos in this file?

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Marked as reviewed by wetmore (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10969



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