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OpenSSL: deprecate Mozilla's TLS Server recommendation #14657

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We shouldn't hardcode a list of ciphers. It should always be a runtime configurable list. Furthermore, restricting the ciphers is only part of the security recommendations: TLS methods, curves and so on must also be considered.

This patch deprecates the constants and makes the related methods as NOOP since they didn't work as expected on OpenSSL 1.1 and later, as they only changed the cipher suites for TLS v1.3 (identical to default, at least for OpenSSL 1.1.1f) and didn't change the ciphers list for TLS v1.2 and below (oops).

follow up to #14655 and #14656

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We shouldn't hardcode a list of ciphers. It should always be a
configurable list of ciphers. Furthermore, restricting the ciphers is
only part of the security recommendations: TLS methods, curves and so on
must also be considered.

This patch deprecates the constants, and makes the related methods as
NOOP since they didn't work as expected on OpenSSL 1.1 and later, as
they only changes the cipher suites for TLS v1.3 (identical to default)
and didn't change the ciphers list for TLS v1.2 and below (oops).
@ysbaddaden ysbaddaden force-pushed the fix/openssl-deprecate-mozilla-recommendation branch from e34f693 to 76a1fcd Compare June 6, 2024 15:17
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@straight-shoota straight-shoota added this to the 1.13.0 milestone Jun 7, 2024
@straight-shoota straight-shoota merged commit 835b0c7 into crystal-lang:master Jun 9, 2024
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@ysbaddaden ysbaddaden deleted the fix/openssl-deprecate-mozilla-recommendation branch June 10, 2024 09:45
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