Newer OpenVPN 3 core versions now allow limited configuration of ciphers:
// Allow usage of legacy (cipher) algorithm that are no longer considered
safe
// This includes BF-CBC, single DES and RC2 private key encryption.
// With OpenSSL 3.0 this also instructs OpenSSL to load the legacy provider.
bool enableLegacyAlgorithms = false;
// By default modern OpenVPN version (OpenVPN 2.6 and OpenVPN core 3.7)
will only allow
// preferred algorithms (AES-GCM, Chacha20-Poly1305) that also work with
the newer DCO
// implementations. If this is enabled, we fall back to allowing all
algorithms (if these are
// supported by the crypto library)
bool enableNonPreferredDCAlgorithms = false;
Adjust the man page section accordingly but only really mention the AEAD ciphers
to be always present and that they should be included in the data-ciphers
option.
Signed-off-by: Arne Schwabe <[email protected]>
---
doc/man-sections/cipher-negotiation.rst | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/man-sections/cipher-negotiation.rst
b/doc/man-sections/cipher-negotiation.rst
index b07176cd2..66afeb835 100644
--- a/doc/man-sections/cipher-negotiation.rst
+++ b/doc/man-sections/cipher-negotiation.rst
@@ -42,8 +42,9 @@ options to avoid this behaviour.
OpenVPN 3 clients
-----------------
Clients based on the OpenVPN 3.x library (https://github.com/openvpn/openvpn3/)
-do not have a configurable ``--ncp-ciphers`` or ``--data-ciphers`` option.
Instead
-these clients will announce support for all their supported AEAD ciphers
+do not have a configurable ``--ncp-ciphers`` or ``--data-ciphers`` option.
Newer
+version by default will disable legacy AES-CBC, BF-CBC, and, DES-CBC ciphers.
+These clients will always announce support for all their supported AEAD ciphers
(`AES-256-GCM`, `AES-128-GCM` and in newer versions also `Chacha20-Poly1305`).
To support OpenVPN 3.x based clients at least one of these ciphers needs to be
--
2.37.1 (Apple Git-137.1)
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