Node.js has so far only supported user-defined DHE parameters and even
recommended generating custom parameters. This change lets users set the
dhparam option to 'auto' instead, in which case DHE parameters of
sufficient strength are selected automatically (from a small set of
well-known parameters). This has been recommended by OpenSSL for quite a
while, and it makes it much easier for Node.js TLS servers to properly
support DHE-based perfect forward secrecy.
This also updates the documentation to prioritize ECDHE over DHE, mostly
because the former tends to be more efficient and is enabled by default.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/46978
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
In the manual page, there is a statement that ciphersuites contain
explicit default settings - all TLS 1.3 ciphersuites enabled.
In node, we assume that an empty setting mean no ciphersuites and
we disable TLS 1.3. A correct approach to disabling TLS 1.3 is to
disable TLS 1.3 and by not override the default ciphersuits
with an empty string.
So, only override OpenSSL's TLS 1.3 ciphersuites with an explicit
list of ciphers. If none are acceptable, the correct approach is
to disable TLS 1.3 instead elsewhere.
Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/43419
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/43427
Reviewed-By: Matteo Collina <matteo.collina@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Paolo Insogna <paolo@cowtech.it>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
The internal use of tls.parseCertString was removed in
a336444c7f. The function does not handle
multi-value RDNs correctly, leading to incorrect representations and
security concerns.
This change is breaking in two ways: tls.parseCertString is removed
(but has been runtime-deprecated since Node.js 9) and
_tls_common.translatePeerCertificate does not translate the `subject`
and `issuer` properties anymore.
This change also removes the recommendation to use querystring.parse
instead, which is similarly dangerous.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/41479
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Matteo Collina <matteo.collina@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <rlau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Kumar Rishav