[gnutls-help] Problem with https://archive.org

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Wed May 29 23:47:57 CEST 2013


On 05/29/2013 03:13 PM, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote:
> Interesting. This server negotiates C0.13 (which is
> ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA), and selects SSL 3.0. This ciphersuite is only
> defined for TLS 1.0 or later and that's why gnutls rejects it and closes
> the connection.
> 
> This was a bug of a particular openssl version on Debian.
> 
> If this is a widespread issue we may try to work it around in gnutls and
> allow elliptic curves even in SSL 3.0.

I've just forwarded this exchange to info at archive.org; i'm hoping
someone there can get back to to me about what they're running and
whether it's a vendor issue or a configuration issue.

It looks like their setup also *can't* negotiate TLS 1.0, which seems
pretty broken to me these days.

	--dkg

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