I'm trying to disable TLSv1.0 in Java 8
I have included TLSv1.0 in the following line as follow in the JRE/lib/security/java.security
jdk.tls.disabledAlgorithms=SSLv3, RC4, MD5withRSA, DH, TLSv1.0
still, I'm getting the ciphers from the TLSv1.0 when I tested, but when I configured other versions like TLSv1.1, I was able to successfully remove the respective ciphers
What might be the issue for this ?
Is there is any way to remove a specific ciphers in JRE level?
Best Answer
You can disable TLSv1 and whatever ciphers you want using command line args, like so:
java -Djava.security.properties=disabled_tlsv1.properties
The file disabled_tlsv1.properties
has a list of ciphers to disable, and supports protocols as well, e.g. TLSv1
. The rest of the ciphers I list below are deemed insecure for TLSv1.1.
This still leaves TLSv1.1 workable though, as some ciphers for it are still enabled. Note that you can also do this in the JRE itself, to affect the entire server if you prefer, as detailed in the question itself.
disabled_tlsv1.properties
jdk.tls.disabledAlgorithms=SSLv3, RC4, MD5withRSA, DH keySize < 768,TLSv1,TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA,TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA256,TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA256,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5,TLS_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA
A git repo showing this, and how to verify that TLSv1 is disabled can be found here
Replace TLSv1.0 with TLSv1:
jdk.tls.disabledAlgorithms=SSLv3, RC4, MD5withRSA, DH, TLSv1
How to test?
openssl s_client -connect ip:port -tls1
for the first part question I was able to disable TLSv1.0 by modifying the line as below(used TLSv1 instead of TLSv1.0)
jdk.tls.disabledAlgorithms=SSLv3, RC4, MD5withRSA, DH, TLSv1
but I still want to get to know, is there are any possibilities that I can disable an entire cipher suite in JRE level, for example, removing below 3 ciphers
> RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA> RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA> RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA
You could force the client to use a specific protocol by setting the java option
-Djdk.tls.client.protocols=TLSv1.1,TLSv1.2
Or if are looking for disabling a specific cipher you could try setting
jdk.certpath.disabledAlgorithms=MD2, RSA keySize < 1024
in java.security file