Hi,

on https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Security_in_Firefox_2 I found that FF 2 does
support only curves with 256, 384, and 521. Maybe this is the same for FF 3 and
your 160 bit curve is not supported.


Bye
Dirk

Alex Birkett wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Firefox 3.6.2 supports the TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA cipher
> suite. I've configured  Open SSL (version 1.0.0.a) as a test server with
> what I think is a suitable ECC key/certificate (attached) The keys were
> created with the attached script.
> 
> The server was started like this:
> openssl s_server -cert
> /home/alex/keys/ssltest/Certs/secp160r2TestServer.pem -cipher
> ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA
> 
> An open ssl client can be successfully connected like this:
> openssl s_client -connect localhost:4433
> The client says the connection is established with
> the ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA cipher
> 
> When a connection with Firefox is attempted the server give a series of
> errors like this:
> 
> 140068746417832:error:1408A0C1:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_CLIENT_HELLO:no
> shared cipher:s3_srvr.c:1216:
> shutting down SSL
> 
> Can anybody explain this? Could it be a bug in OpenSSL?
> 
> Many Thanks,
> 
> Kind Regards,
> 
> Alex
> 

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