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authorPauli <pauli@openssl.org>2022-05-06 10:42:16 +1000
committerPauli <pauli@openssl.org>2022-05-08 16:58:00 +1000
commit54b0c534eeb283878092e006e7f1e9315ec62ad6 (patch)
treece9952ea1927853856cd5c1fcaee5ff6376bc8bc
parent7bf2e4d7f0c7ae19b7a8c416910886a7171e9820 (diff)
doc: add not that DTLS 1.0, TLS 1.1 and before are disabled at security level 1
Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org> Reviewed-by: Dmitry Belyavskiy <beldmit@gmail.com> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/18236)
-rw-r--r--doc/man3/SSL_CTX_set_security_level.pod11
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man3/SSL_CTX_set_security_level.pod b/doc/man3/SSL_CTX_set_security_level.pod
index 683840aa1d..b490c74039 100644
--- a/doc/man3/SSL_CTX_set_security_level.pod
+++ b/doc/man3/SSL_CTX_set_security_level.pod
@@ -78,29 +78,28 @@ DSA and DH keys shorter than 1024 bits and ECC keys shorter than 160 bits
are prohibited. Any cipher suite using MD5 for the MAC is also prohibited. Any
cipher suites using CCM with a 64 bit authentication tag are prohibited. Note
that signatures using SHA1 and MD5 are also forbidden at this level as they
-have less than 80 security bits.
+have less than 80 security bits. Additionally, SSLv3, TLS 1.0, TLS 1.1 and
+DTLS 1.0 are all disabled at this level.
=item B<Level 2>
Security level set to 112 bits of security. As a result RSA, DSA and DH keys
shorter than 2048 bits and ECC keys shorter than 224 bits are prohibited.
In addition to the level 1 exclusions any cipher suite using RC4 is also
-prohibited. SSL version 3 is also not allowed. Compression is disabled.
+prohibited. Compression is disabled.
=item B<Level 3>
Security level set to 128 bits of security. As a result RSA, DSA and DH keys
shorter than 3072 bits and ECC keys shorter than 256 bits are prohibited.
In addition to the level 2 exclusions cipher suites not offering forward
-secrecy are prohibited. TLS versions below 1.1 are not permitted. Session
-tickets are disabled.
+secrecy are prohibited. Session tickets are disabled.
=item B<Level 4>
Security level set to 192 bits of security. As a result RSA, DSA and
DH keys shorter than 7680 bits and ECC keys shorter than 384 bits are
-prohibited. Cipher suites using SHA1 for the MAC are prohibited. TLS
-versions below 1.2 are not permitted.
+prohibited. Cipher suites using SHA1 for the MAC are prohibited.
=item B<Level 5>