Bug#766007: iceweasel: SSL error - cannot connect to certain servers

2014-10-26 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 10/26/2014 07:34 PM, Norbert Preining wrote: > So What I got from cipherscan is the following: > > prio ciphersuite protocolspfs_keysize > 1 RC4-SHA SSLv3 > 2 RC4-MD5 SSLv2,SSLv3 > 3 EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA SSLv3DH,1024bits > 4 DE

Bug#766007: iceweasel: SSL error - cannot connect to certain servers

2014-10-26 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi everyone, thanks for the comments. > Apparently there are various appropriate offline tools, try > something from here:- ?? > https://github.com/ssllabs/research/wiki/Assessment-Tools Done so, I used cipherscan > [or, alternatively, arrange a temporary port-443 forward through > to the serve

Bug#766007: iceweasel: SSL error - cannot connect to certain servers

2014-10-24 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 10/23/2014 10:30 PM, Norbert Preining wrote: > On Fri, 24 Oct 2014, Mike Hommey wrote: >> If it is, you can try to go to about:config, and change >> security.tls.version.min to 0. > > Indeed, that made it work again thanks. > Is it possible to have this only for *some* sites, I would pref

Bug#766007: iceweasel: SSL error - cannot connect to certain servers

2014-10-23 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Mike, hi all, On Fri, 24 Oct 2014, Mike Hommey wrote: > If it is, you can try to go to about:config, and change > security.tls.version.min to 0. Indeed, that made it work again thanks. Is it possible to have this only for *some* sites, I would prefer *not* to enable that globally. So, t

Bug#766007: iceweasel: SSL error - cannot connect to certain servers

2014-10-23 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 10:56:09AM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > > It looks like this is a really old server, which can only support SSL > > v3.0. > > That could well be ... unfortunately > > > what if you add the flag "-V ssl3:ssl3" to the tstclnt implementation? > > Looks b

Bug#766007: iceweasel: SSL error - cannot connect to certain servers

2014-10-23 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Daniel, > It looks like this is a really old server, which can only support SSL > v3.0. That could well be ... unfortunately > what if you add the flag "-V ssl3:ssl3" to the tstclnt implementation? Looks better, finishes with ... tstclnt: using asynchronous certificate validation tstclnt:

Bug#766007: iceweasel: SSL error - cannot connect to certain servers

2014-10-23 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Hi Norbert-- Norbert Preining wrote: > An error occurred during a connection to MY.SERVER:PORT. SSL peer rejected a > handshake message for unacceptable content. (Error code: > ssl_error_illegal_parameter_alert) [...] > ii libnss3 2:3.17.2-1 [...] > Hi Sylvestre, > >> > * tr

Bug#766007: iceweasel: SSL error - cannot connect to certain servers

2014-10-21 Thread Martin Hardcastle
The latest Iceweasel security update disables SSL3 based on a well-publicised vulnerability: https://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3050 This breaks a number of sites that only have SSL available for encryption. I would personally have preferred a warning, but this is really a problem with the s

Bug#766007: iceweasel: SSL error - cannot connect to certain servers

2014-10-20 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
On 20/10/2014 06:33, Norbert Preining wrote: > Package: iceweasel > Version: 31.2.0esr-2 > Severity: important [...] > * tried upstream original firefox: worked out of the box Same version? > * tried chromium (Debian): worked out of the box > > That means that something in the SSL handling in Debia

Bug#766007: iceweasel: SSL error - cannot connect to certain servers

2014-10-20 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Sylvestre, > > * tried upstream original firefox: worked out of the box > Same version? I tried both, 33.0 and 31.2.0esr, in both cases it works with original Firefox without any problems. > Or that the SSL certificat of the server is broken. It worked two or three weeks ago on the same comp

Bug#766007: iceweasel: SSL error - cannot connect to certain servers

2014-10-20 Thread Norbert Preining
Package: iceweasel Version: 31.2.0esr-2 Severity: important Hi all, I get the following error when connecting to the universities internal web server: -- Secure Connection Failed An error occurred during a connection to MY.SERVER:PORT. SSL peer rejected a handshake message for unacceptable