Re: [exim] Diffie-Hellman?

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Author: Oliver Howe
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Diffie-Hellman?
I'm running Exim 4.76 on Ubuntu server 12.

I presume this issue will go away if I install the latest version of Exim
as it looks like the dh_min_bits was released in 4.80, according to
https://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20120601.101708.8a0ac655.en.html




On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 10:36 PM, Viktor Dukhovni
<exim-users@???>wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 01:07:09PM -0800, Todd Lyons wrote:
>
> > (Not) funny. I was wrong on BOTH counts. It is a runtime
> > configuration and it is the user's problem. I guess I have been
> > fortunate enough to have only ever used OpenSSL because it has always
> > just worked without need for tweaking.
>
> Note, some Debian releases patched Exim to make it "more secure",
> thereby breaking TLS handshakes with most servers, and making Exim
> less secure when Exim falls back to cleartext delivery. The OP
> may well have one of the "improved" Debian Exim versions.
>
> This has been discussed on either Exim-dev or Exim-users before.
> It is also documented in
>
>     http://www.postfix.org/FORWARD_SECRECY_README.html#server_fs

>
> near the bottom of that section. This motivated the recommendation
> for Postfix administrators to create 2048-bit DHE parameter files.
>
> --
>         Viktor.

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