SMTP STARTTLS - "best practices"?

2014-04-23 Thread Per Thorsheim
t and justified opinions on what to consider "good" and "best" practices on this matter. Regards, Per Thorsheim

Re: SMTP STARTTLS - "best practices"?

2014-04-23 Thread Per Thorsheim
Den 23.04.2014 16:35, skrev Viktor Dukhovni: > On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 04:21:14PM +0200, Per Thorsheim wrote: > It seems to me as if mailadmins prefer supporting "everything", > since anything is better than plaintext. > Correct. This is called "opportunistic TLS&quo

Re: Disabling Anonymous Diffie Hellman

2014-05-20 Thread Per Thorsheim
d over SSLv2, ANON suites and expired certificates. One of our goals with starttls.info was to aid in the global deployment of STARTTLS, another goal was to improve the minimum level used by anyone deploying STARTTLS. That is until Viktors IETF proposal, or anything similar, reaches broad adoption on the

Re: Disabling Anonymous Diffie Hellman

2014-05-20 Thread Per Thorsheim
mes I like to believe for myself that it just might made a positive difference to some. It will continue to operate, and I hope we'll be able to expand it to do additional checks of configurations such as those proposed by you. Best regards, Per Thorsheim Den 20.05.2014 15:56, skrev Viktor D

SMTP starttls / DANE TLS

2014-06-16 Thread Per Thorsheim
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dane-smtp-with-dane/ "In WG Last Call" Any estimate on when this might become final Viktor? After Google named & shamed Comcast for not having starttls, many well-known services are now establishing RFC 3207 starttls support. Additionally people are bec

Re: SMTP starttls / DANE TLS

2014-06-17 Thread Per Thorsheim
Den 16.06.2014 17:18, skrev Viktor Dukhovni: > On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 10:12:03AM +0200, Per Thorsheim wrote: > >> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dane-smtp-with-dane/ >> "In WG Last Call" >> >> Any estimate on when this might become final V

Re: SMTP starttls / DANE TLS

2014-06-17 Thread Per Thorsheim
Den 17.06.2014 20:59, skrev Viktor Dukhovni: > Thanks for fighting the good fight. In the mean-time, any chance > you could stop fix the misleading TLS support scores starttls.info > issues to soundly configured MTAs? > > * For SMTP, self-signed certificates are as good as CA issued > ce

EFF STARTTLS Everywhere project

2014-07-29 Thread Per Thorsheim
27;ll make references to this and DANE TLS in my talk at the DEFCON Crypto & Privacy Village. I'm very happy to see that these issues are gaining a lot of attention these days. Viktor: Is the IEEE meeting done yet? Any status update for DANE TLS? BR, Per Thorsheim

Re: EFF STARTTLS Everywhere project

2014-07-29 Thread Per Thorsheim
Den 29.07.2014 16:14, skrev Viktor Dukhovni: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 03:57:24PM +0200, Per Thorsheim wrote: > >> I don't know if this list is aware of this project? >> >> https://github.com/EFForg/starttls-everywhere > > The EFF folks behind this effo

Re: SMTP STS and policy delegation for smtp *client* ?

2016-03-21 Thread Per Thorsheim
Den 21.03.2016 18.47, skrev Viktor Dukhovni: > >> On Mar 21, 2016, at 12:18 PM, David Schweikert wrote: >> >> I wonder what the Postfix community thinks or plans to do according to >> this standard that is being written: >> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-margolis-smtp-sts/?include_text=1

Possible SHA-256 SSL cert problems?

2014-10-02 Thread Per Thorsheim
ally any other ideas or experiences with using SHA-256 certificates that have caused problems for STARTTLS, or ex. appliances that doesn't support it? I already know that Cisco Ironport and Barracuda appliances only supports up to and including TLSv1, haven't found any info there for SHA-

Re: Possible SHA-256 SSL cert problems?

2014-10-02 Thread Per Thorsheim
Den 02.10.2014 14:38, skrev Wietse Venema: > Per Thorsheim: >> Mozilla and others have reported on old web clients that doesn't support >> the use of new SHA-256 signed SSL certificates on websites. In a recent >> thread at Mozilla >> https://bugzilla.mozill

Symantec/Messagelabs starttls - ClientCertificateRequested

2014-10-24 Thread Per Thorsheim
r any other info on the configuration & reasoning behind their selective choices? I just assume that a whole lot of mail must be sent in plain due to their very narrow approach? Regards, Per Thorsheim

Re: TLS issues with old Exchange Servers

2015-01-05 Thread Per Thorsheim
Den 05.01.2015 18:59, skrev li...@rhsoft.net: > > Am 05.01.2015 um 18:47 schrieb Viktor Dukhovni: >> On Mon, Jan 05, 2015 at 06:01:03PM +0100, DTNX Postmaster wrote: >> With RC4-SHA early enough for the 11-year old Microsoft Exchange servers. >>> >>> Sadly, older Exchange servers (2003 a

SMTP DANE TLS (the death of) DNSSEC

2015-01-19 Thread Per Thorsheim
s to read here, but short question is; how will this eventually impact future deployment of of SMTP security via opportunistic DANE TLS? Best regards, Per Thorsheim

SMTP servers with RSA export suite support

2015-03-04 Thread Per Thorsheim
According to Twitter.com/einaros, the https://starttls.info/ database shows 43266 distinct SMTP servers (~12%) supports RSA Export suites, re: #FREAK attack. I wonder what percentages would look like for pop/imap servers. Best regards, Per Thorsheim

Configuring DANE TLSA - "wizard"

2015-06-02 Thread Per Thorsheim
Cannot find a simple process guide for configuring DANE TLSA support & publish relevant DNSSEC signed information. Anyone got a complete guide from start to finish? BR, Per

Re: Configuring DANE TLSA - "wizard"

2015-06-02 Thread Per Thorsheim
of scrolling to get to relevant > information but I hope it helps > > https://ripe68.ripe.net/presentations/253-DANEs_don%27t_lie-20140512.pdf > > > On 02/06/2015 9:35 am, Per Thorsheim wrote: >> Cannot find a simple process guide for configuring DANE TLSA support & &g

Min/max cipher suite configurations

2015-06-05 Thread Per Thorsheim
587 without breaking RFCs, "best practices", or cryptographers ability to sleep well. BR, Per Thorsheim

SPF entries for IPv4 & IPv6

2017-01-02 Thread Per Thorsheim
If using IP addresses in SPF records, is it necessary to specify both IPv4 & IPv6 addresses? Is there currently a risk of unwanted problems if only IPv4 (or only IPv6) addresses are specified, when a mailserver is available using both 4 & 6? -- Best regards, Per Thorsheim Twitter: @thorsheim

Re: SPF entries for IPv4 & IPv6

2017-01-02 Thread Per Thorsheim
Den 02.01.2017 16.41, skrev A. Schulze: > > Am 02.01.2017 um 14:18 schrieb Sebastian Nielsen: >> OFC you must specify both unless you have completely disabled sending of >> outgoing mail via IPv6. > > I think, that's wrong > > One may publish records like "v=spf1 a -all" for a host mail.example

Re: possible to reach hardenize's requirements?

2019-04-12 Thread Per Thorsheim
Den 12/04/2019 17:09, skrev Scott Kitterman: On Friday, April 12, 2019 10:46:50 AM micah anderson wrote: The site https://hardenize.com provides relatively decent Email reports, along with other reports. It checks a number of things including certs, MTA-STS, TLS-RPT, DANE, SPF, DMARC, and then a