svn commit: r284490 - stable/9

Gregory Neil Shapiro gshapiro at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jun 17 03:19:32 UTC 2015


Author: gshapiro
Date: Wed Jun 17 03:19:31 2015
New Revision: 284490
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/284490

Log:
  Add a note regarding the change to sendmail'c default DH parameter size
  for client connections.

Modified:
  stable/9/UPDATING

Modified: stable/9/UPDATING
==============================================================================
--- stable/9/UPDATING	Wed Jun 17 03:12:08 2015	(r284489)
+++ stable/9/UPDATING	Wed Jun 17 03:19:31 2015	(r284490)
@@ -11,6 +11,14 @@ handbook:
 Items affecting the ports and packages system can be found in
 /usr/ports/UPDATING.  Please read that file before running portupgrade.
 
+20150615:
+	The latest version of openssl rejects TLS handshakes with DH
+	parameters below 768 bits.  sendmail releases prior to 8.15.2
+	(not yet released), defaulted to a 512 bit DH parameter setting
+	for client connections.  To improve interoperability, the
+	sendmail default for client connections has been raised to
+	1024 bits.
+
 20140717:
 	It is no longer necessary to include the dwarf version in your DEBUG
 	options in your kernel config file. The bug that required it to be


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