On 26/05/2014, at 6:58 pm, Sverre Moe <sverre....@gmail.com> wrote:

>> Documentation aside, none of these cipher-suites are supported in Oracle
> Java 7.
> The AES_CBC ciphers I had there are supported in Java 7.
> 
> I have already concluded as much regarding the AES_x_GCM. Using Java 8 one
> have access to these higher GCM ciphers, but only very few obscure browsers
> supports them. Therefore neither AES_256_GCM nor SHA384 can be used yet.
> 

Latest versions of Firefox and Chrome (and others I suspect) use GCM ciphers 
(gmail seems to prefer them for example).

> Also because of the the JSSE cipher ordering it will always choose
> AES_x_CBC instead over AES_x_GCM if both are in the Connector cipher list.
> See table: Default Enabled Cipher Suites
> http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/security/SunProviders.html#SunJSSEProvider
> Same ordering you get from getDefaultCipherSuites();
> 

You don’t have to accept the default ciphers, or ordering.
Check the docs for the HTTP connector to see how to configure this.


tim
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