Hi Viktor,

On Saturday, 02 Aug 2014 15:32 +0000, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:

> > I've noticed, that my Postfix installation does select in some
> > caes (especially if Postfix is running on both ends)
> > AECDH-AES256-SHA instead of ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384. The
> > receiving Postfix does support ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 and
> > connections with that cipher are possible.
> > 
> > But if Postfix connects to that server, it uses only
> > AECDH-AES256-SHA. Unfortunately, I'm not able to find the reason
> > for this behaviour.
> 
> This is by design.  With opportunistic encryption, which entails no
> certificate checks, Postfix profers anonymous diffie-hellman (DH),
> and the elliptic curve variant thereof to ciphersuites that use
> futile certificates.

Ok, thanks for clarifying.




Ihsan

-- 
ih...@dogan.ch http://blog.dogan.ch/

Reply via email to