Brian Braun <brianbr...@gmail.com> wrote: >Hi, > >Is there a REAL solution to the "BEAST attack" (CVE-2011-3389) for >Tomcat >7.x? >For more info about this attack: >http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2011-3389 > >My toughts and questions, as far as I have investigated this issue: > >- Disabling the TLS1.0 protocol would be too restrictive, because there >are >still browser versions in use that don't support TLS1.1 or TLS1.2. >- Should we restrict the ciphers in use? If so, which ones should we >offer >for Tomcat 7.X over JVM1.6 and using a GeoCerts certificate (which >means >JSSE instead of OpenSSL)?
Any strong ciphers available with your JVM that don't use CBC. >- Will upgrading to the latest JVM (as of today, Sept 14th 2012) solve >this >issue? Unlikely. What it may do is give you more cipher options. Java 7 also - I think but haven't check my recollection - supports the later TLS versions. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
