[cryptography] Better Crypto

2014-01-05 Thread ianG
Not sure if it has been mentioned here. The Better Crypto group at bettercrypto.org have written a (draft) paper for many of those likely configurations for net tools. The PDF is here: https://bettercrypto.org/static/applied-crypto-hardening.pdf If you're a busy sysadm with dozens of tools to

Re: [cryptography] Better Crypto

2014-01-05 Thread coderman
On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 11:59 PM, ianG wrote: > Not sure if it has been mentioned here. The Better Crypto group at > bettercrypto.org have written a (draft) paper for many of those likely > configurations for net tools. The PDF is here: > > https://bettercrypto.org/static/applied-crypto-hardening.

Re: [cryptography] Better Crypto

2014-01-05 Thread Peter Gutmann
ianG writes: >Not sure if it has been mentioned here. The Better Crypto group at >bettercrypto.org have written a (draft) paper for many of those likely >configurations for net tools. The PDF is here: > >https://bettercrypto.org/static/applied-crypto-hardening.pdf > >If you're a busy sysadm with

Re: [cryptography] Better Crypto

2014-01-05 Thread coderman
On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 4:28 AM, Peter Gutmann wrote: > ... > There are some pretty weird choices in there though, a number of which seem to > have been dictated mostly by fashion-statement requirements rather than any > security need they enable Camellia but disable 3DES (why?), > they optiona

Re: [cryptography] Better Crypto

2014-01-05 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 7:28 AM, Peter Gutmann wrote: > > There are some pretty weird choices in there though, a number of which seem to > have been dictated mostly by fashion-statement requirements rather than any > security need. For example they recommend disabling (if I'm reading the > OpenSSL