RFR: 8245545: Disable TLS_RSA cipher suites [v9]

Sean Mullan mullan at openjdk.org
Wed Nov 20 21:01:14 UTC 2024


On Wed, 20 Nov 2024 20:53:35 GMT, Artur Barashev <abarashev at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> These cipher suites do not preserve forward-secrecy and are not commonly used. Other TLS implementations (ex: Rustls) do not support or enable these suites by default. RFC 9325 [1] states that these suites should not be used. The IETF Draft "Deprecating Obsolete Key Exchange Methods in TLS" [2] mandates that these suites not be used.
>> 
>> Some TLS_RSA_* cipher suites are already disabled because they use DES, 3DES, RC4, or NULL, which are disabled. This action will disable all remaining TLS_RSA cipher suites.
>> 
>> [1] RFC 9325, Recommendations for Secure Use of TLS and DTLS (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9325.html#section-4.1-2.5.1): "Implementations SHOULD NOT negotiate cipher suites based on RSA key transport, a.k.a. "static RSA". Rationale: These cipher suites, which have assigned values starting with the string "TLS_RSA_WITH_*", have several drawbacks, especially the fact that they do not support forward secrecy."
>> [2] IETF Draft, Deprecating Obsolete Key Exchange Methods in TLS (https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-tls-deprecate-obsolete-kex-05.html#section-4): "Clients MUST NOT offer and servers MUST NOT select RSA cipher suites in TLS 1.2 connections. (Note that TLS 1.0 and 1.1 are deprecated by [RFC8996], and TLS 1.3 does not support static RSA [RFC8446].)"
>
> Artur Barashev has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   DisabledAlgorithms Copyright year

Missed a copyright update on `test/jdk/javax/net/ssl/ciphersuites/DisabledAlgorithms.java`. Otherwise looks good.

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Marked as reviewed by mullan (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/22163#pullrequestreview-2449683408


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