Looking forward to the Update :-)

2013/9/10 Sam Clippinger <s...@silence.org>

> I think you're exactly right -- I'll need to add another TLS option to
> spamdyke to accept the DH parameters and pass them to OpenSSL with the
> callback.  I'll have to figure out how to test it as well...
>
> Thanks for finding that link, I don't think I would have even looked at a
> function with "tmp" in its name!
>
> -- Sam Clippinger
>
>
>
>
> On Sep 9, 2013, at 3:34 AM, Marc Gregel wrote:
>
> Hi Sam,
>
> is it possible that the problem is because of missing "dh keys"?
> I think (!) spamdyke don't use or call something like this here:
> http://www.openssl.org/docs/ssl/SSL_CTX_set_tmp_dh_callback.html - read
> the 'notes' part
> so cipher with EDHE:DE won't work.
>
> My server/openssl is fine because the orginal qmail-tls works with cipher
> EDHE_DH"! So the problem is the tls handling of spamdyke?!
>
>
> 2013/9/8 Sam Clippinger <s...@silence.org>
>
>> Hmmm... I think you may be beyond the edge of my expertise, but I'll
>> certainly try to help if I can.  spamdyke uses the OpenSSL library to
>> handle SSL and TLS, so anything that works with OpenSSL on the command line
>> should work with spamdyke as well.  The option "tls-cipher-list" serves the
>> same function as the "-cipher" option to "openssl".  spamdyke just takes
>> the text it's given and passes it to the SSL_CTX_set_cipher_list() function
>> in the OpenSSL library before the connection is established.  The ciphers
>> you give should be ones listed when you run "openssl ciphers" from the
>> command line, I'm not sure how it handles abbreviations.
>>
>> It's possible the problem is actually within openssl's SMTP client.  If
>> it's not starting the SMTP connection and asking for TLS correctly, the
>> client could be sending encrypted text while the server is still in
>> plaintext mode or vice-versa.  That would yield some strange error messages
>> on both sides.
>>
>> I think I would suggest configuring spamdyke on port 465 with "tls-level"
>> set to "smtps" and the "tls-cipher-list" option set to your specific
>> ciphers.  Then use this command to connect and test (substitute your
>> ciphers as appropriate):
>>  openssl s_client -quiet -cipher "EXP-RC4-MD5" -connect localhost:465
>> If it connects and you see the "220" greeting banner, it's working.  If
>> you see an "alert handshake failure", you've probably selected a cipher the
>> server doesn't support.
>>
>> -- Sam Clippinger
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sep 7, 2013, at 3:18 PM, Marc Gregel wrote:
>>
>> Hi :-)
>>
>> These days where the NSA is watching us I decided to make my server as
>> secure as possible.
>> For qmail it means to use TLS with strong encryption - openssl with "-
>> ciphers "EDHS:DE" for example.
>>
>> The original QMAIL without spamdyke works fine:
>> openssl s_client -starttls smtp -connect localhost:25
>> shows me this:
>> Protocol  : TLSv1.2
>> Cipher    : DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
>> Great!
>>
>> Now I enable spamdyke and test it again...
>> Protocol  : TLSv1.2
>> Cipher    : AES256-GCM-SHA384
>>
>> Ok, not that good... maybe just a wrong cipher list? So I specified it a
>> little bit more (works fine with qmail only):
>> openssl s_client -starttls smtp -connect localhost:25 -cipher 'DH'
>>
>> Ups, an error:
>> CONNECTED(00000003)
>> 139820346807976:error:14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3
>> alert handshake failure:s23_clnt.c:741:
>>
>> I already tried to add "dhparam" to the qmail servercert
>> (mentioned here
>> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.mail.spam.spamdyke.user/3226 )
>> but that didnt't change anything...
>>
>>
>> I also tested with "tls-cipher-list" param at the conf file - same error.
>> And at the maillog this:
>> A protocol or library failure occurred, error:140E6118:lib(20):func(
>> 230):reason(280)
>>
>> Is it possible that there's a bug in spamdyke with strong encryption?
>>
>> Thanks for your help,
>> Marc
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