[erlang-questions] TLS cipher suite with Galois Counter Mode (GCM)

John Foldager john.foldager@REDACTED
Wed Sep 9 09:39:52 CEST 2015


Thanks Danil.

We're currently using Erlang 16 b3, so we'll check if we can upgrade
to Erlang OTP 18 instead. We just need to verify with RabbitMQ if it
is supported or not.

Thanks

On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Danil Zagoskin <z@REDACTED> wrote:
> Hi, John!
>
> What OTP version do you use?
> OTP17 and prior do not support GCM, you need OTP18.
>
> Old possible ciphers:
> https://github.com/erlang/otp/blob/maint-17/lib/ssl/src/ssl_cipher.erl#L46
> New possible ciphers:
> https://github.com/erlang/otp/blob/maint-18/lib/ssl/src/ssl_cipher.erl#L48
> (note the aes_128_gcm and aes_256_gcm ciphers).
>
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 2:58 PM, John Foldager <john.foldager@REDACTED>
> wrote:
>>
>> We're using RabbitMQ and now have a request for supporting the following
>> cipher suites:
>>
>>     TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 (0X009C)
>>     TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256  (0XC02F)
>>     TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 (0X009E)
>>     TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 (0XC02B)
>>
>> However, if we use the following commands from the Erlang CLI we don't see
>> these cipher suites:
>>
>>     io:format("~p", [ssl:cipher_suites(openssl)]).
>>     io:format("~p", [ssl:cipher_suites(erlang)]).
>>
>> So how can we make these cipher suites available to Erlang.... and then
>> RabbitMQ that runs on top of Erlang?
>>
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>
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