Bug 756781 - RFE: Upgrade to 1.0.1 and support forward secrecy via ECDHE
Summary: RFE: Upgrade to 1.0.1 and support forward secrecy via ECDHE
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Status: CLOSED CANTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: openssl
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Tomas Mraz
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-11-24 14:28 UTC by Michael J Gruber
Modified: 2011-11-24 15:16 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2011-11-24 15:16:24 UTC
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Description Michael J Gruber 2011-11-24 14:28:03 UTC 
Google has started forward secrecy via ECDHE for https, see:

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2011/11/protecting-data-for-long-term-with.html

http://www.imperialviolet.org/2011/11/22/forwardsecret.html

This requires an updated openssl supporting ECDHE:

http://cvs.openssl.org/fileview?f=openssl%2FCHANGES&v=1.1481.2.56.2.57

Upgrade to openssl 1.0.1 in order to support this.
Comment 1 Tomas Mraz 2011-11-24 15:16:24 UTC 
We will upgrade to openssl-1.0.1 as soon as it is released. However we will not support ECDHE due to possible patent concerns anyway.

Forward secrecy is possible also with the DHE algorithms however they probably will not be supported by high access sites due to the increased load of the DHE.
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