Since the discovery of the SWEET32 flaw, ciphers using cipher-blocks smaller than 128-bits are considered vulnerable and should not be used any more. OpenVPN uses Blowfish (BF-128-CBC) as the default cipher, which is hit by the SWEET32 flaw. This proposal changes the default cipher to AES-256-GCM while in parallel allowing clients to connect using AES-256-CBC, AES-128-CBC or the deprecated BF-CBC,
This proposal will make use of that possibility by modifying the openvpn-server@.service unit file slightly.
Change page for review: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/New_default_cipher_in_OpenVPN Owner: @dsommers
Metadata Update from @mohanboddu: - Issue tagged with: changes, f27
Thanks for the info and atm there is no releng work needed.
Please keep us updated if anything changes.
Thanks.
Metadata Update from @mohanboddu: - Issue tagged with: change-noreleng
Metadata Update from @mohanboddu: - Issue close_status updated to: Fixed - Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
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