Ticket #141 (new defect)

Opened 10 months ago

use better SSL certificates

Reported by: warner Assigned to:
Priority: major Milestone: undecided
Component: unknown Version: 0.4.1
Keywords: security Cc:

Description

I was disappointed to see that a default foolscap certificate is using MD5 and RSA with 1024-bit pubkey keys, both of which are definitely behind the curve as far as modern crypto practices go. (several collisions have already been found for MD5, although what Foolscap really cares about are preimage attacks, and as far as I've heard nobody's found one of those yet): 

% python
>>> import foolscap
>>> foolscap.Tub(certFile="foo.pem")
<Tub id=lj37uywdnuoeghujdjnu7l5sxcxmzaoz>
>>> ^D
% openssl x509 -in foo.pem -text
Certificate:
    Data:
        Version: 1 (0x0)
        Serial Number: 132 (0x84)
        Signature Algorithm: md5WithRSAEncryption
        Issuer: CN=newpb_thingy
        Validity
            Not Before: Oct  7 23:02:55 2009 GMT
            Not After : Oct  7 23:02:55 2010 GMT
        Subject: CN=newpb_thingy
        Subject Public Key Info:
            Public Key Algorithm: rsaEncryption
            RSA Public Key: (1024 bit)
 ...

I was expecting a modern OpenSSL to choose better defaults (this was tested both on my OS-X 10.6 box and on a recent debian/sid system).

I don't know offhand how to tell python-openssl to use something better.