Add option to disable Diffie Hellman key exchange by setting '--dh none'

As requested on the mailing list and in trac ticket #410, add an option to
disable 'traditional' Diffie Hellman key exchange. People want to be able
to create ecdh-only configurations.

This patch also disables RSA key exchange by default for OpenSSL builds, to
prevent that people who set "--dh none" but have an OpenSSL version that
doesn't support ECDH end up with a less secure connection. Note that users
that specify their own --tls-cipher override these defaults and thus can
still use whatever OpenSSL supports (and might thus end up with less secure
connections).

PolarSSL does not allow to easily disable RSA key exchange during runtime,
but its default compile options do not include RSA key exchange based
cipher suites.

Finally update the manpage to reflect the new behaviour, and while touching
it change the text to motivate users towards a more secure configuration.

v2 - disable RSA key exchange by default

Signed-off-by: Steffan Karger <steffan@karger.me>
Acked-by: Arne Schwabe <arne@rfc2549.org>
Message-Id: <1420141569-11773-1-git-send-email-steffan@karger.me>
URL: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.openvpn.devel/9376
Signed-off-by: Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de>

diff --git a/doc/openvpn.8 b/doc/openvpn.8
index 49183ee5e0bf275aba40d83e67654baa6e2b1349..a8c189c918fdc1795bfd7882b2f8b7318c611b00 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/openvpn.8
+++ b/doc/openvpn.8
@@ -4239,13 +4239,18 @@ Not available with PolarSSL.
 File containing Diffie Hellman parameters
 in .pem format (required for
 .B \-\-tls-server
-only). Use
+only).
 
-.B openssl dhparam -out dh1024.pem 1024
+Set
+.B file=none
+to disable Diffie Hellman key exchange (and use ECDH only). Note that this
+requires peers to be using an SSL library that supports ECDH TLS cipher suites
+(e.g. OpenSSL 1.0.1+, or PolarSSL 1.3+).
 
-to generate your own, or use the existing dh1024.pem file
-included with the OpenVPN distribution.  Diffie Hellman parameters
-may be considered public.
+Use
+.B openssl dhparam -out dh2048.pem 2048
+to generate 2048-bit DH parameters. Diffie Hellman parameters may be considered
+public.
 .\"*********************************************************
 .TP
 .B \-\-ecdh-curve name

diff --git a/src/openvpn/options.c b/src/openvpn/options.c
index f6e0855aef072147ea0854ea68fc034287311f9e..4ea03d1bee4d8fd14809a78bb8cf5cfd3cf19f2e 100644 (file)
--- a/src/openvpn/options.c
+++ b/src/openvpn/options.c
@@ -2134,10 +2134,6 @@ options_postprocess_verify_ce (const struct options *options, const struct conne
       (options->shared_secret_file != NULL) > 1)
     msg (M_USAGE, "specify only one of --tls-server, --tls-client, or --secret");
 
-  if (options->tls_server)
-    {
-      notnull (options->dh_file, "DH file (--dh)");
-    }
   if (options->tls_server || options->tls_client)
     {
 #ifdef ENABLE_PKCS11
@@ -2497,6 +2493,16 @@ options_postprocess_mutate (struct options *o)
   for (i = 0; i < o->connection_list->len; ++i)
        options_postprocess_mutate_ce (o, o->connection_list->array[i]);
 
+#ifdef ENABLE_CRYPTO
+  if (o->tls_server)
+    {
+      /* Check that DH file is specified, or explicitly disabled */
+      notnull (o->dh_file, "DH file (--dh)");
+      if (streq (o->dh_file, "none"))
+       o->dh_file = NULL;
+    }
+#endif
+
 #if ENABLE_MANAGEMENT
   if (o->http_proxy_override)
        options_postprocess_http_proxy_override(o);

diff --git a/src/openvpn/ssl.c b/src/openvpn/ssl.c
index 9cc11fcf87b1b771253041c3845b2d63f8dc99ea..0bca28d053053d8ff7cec7adb0220c2d9e7a381f 100644 (file)
--- a/src/openvpn/ssl.c
+++ b/src/openvpn/ssl.c
@@ -242,6 +242,7 @@ static const tls_cipher_name_pair tls_cipher_name_translation_table[] = {
     {"EDH", "EDH"},
     {"EXP", "EXP"},
     {"RSA", "RSA"},
+    {"kRSA", "kRSA"},
     {"SRP", "SRP"},
 #endif
     {NULL, NULL}
@@ -483,7 +484,10 @@ init_ssl (const struct options *options, struct tls_root_ctx *new_ctx)
   if (options->tls_server)
     {
       tls_ctx_server_new(new_ctx);
-      tls_ctx_load_dh_params(new_ctx, options->dh_file, options->dh_file_inline);
+
+      if (options->dh_file)
+       tls_ctx_load_dh_params(new_ctx, options->dh_file,
+                              options->dh_file_inline);
     }
   else                         /* if client */
     {

diff --git a/src/openvpn/ssl_openssl.c b/src/openvpn/ssl_openssl.c
index ea3c99a81d6767269fe521577251c78d56b64cd9..48c05715275782ede1aad6584e13fb49973e446f 100644 (file)
--- a/src/openvpn/ssl_openssl.c
+++ b/src/openvpn/ssl_openssl.c
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ tls_ctx_restrict_ciphers(struct tls_root_ctx *ctx, const char *ciphers)
   if (ciphers == NULL)
     {
       /* Use sane default (disable export, and unsupported cipher modes) */
-      if(!SSL_CTX_set_cipher_list(ctx->ctx, "DEFAULT:!EXP:!PSK:!SRP"))
+      if(!SSL_CTX_set_cipher_list(ctx->ctx, "DEFAULT:!EXP:!PSK:!SRP:!kRSA"))
        crypto_msg (M_FATAL, "Failed to set default TLS cipher list.");
       return;
     }