[tor-dev] Tor not affected by recent openssl security advisories

Yawning Angel yawning at schwanenlied.me
Thu Jan 28 17:24:46 UTC 2016


On Thu, 28 Jan 2016 18:05:51 +0100
Tim Kuijsten <info at netsend.nl> wrote:
> > It's also worth noting that newer (0.2.7.x) versions of Tor should
> > not be doing DHE except when talking to old versions of Tor, linked
> > against old versions of OpenSSL as ECDH is both mandatory and
> > preferred in the current stable series.  
> 
> Is ECDH currently mandatory or did you mean ECDHE?

Yes.

It uses ECDH with Ephemeral keys.  Really, unless you vendor's OpenSSL
library is doing something Really Silly, or is ancient, this will Do
The Right Thing (TM).

-- 
Yawning Angel

[0]: Bow before your new NIST overlords, etc.
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