Revocation Check

• Certificate Revocation List

• Online Certificate Status Protocol

  • Responders

  • Stapling

• Certificate validity period

Revocation Check

OCSP Stapling

OCSP Stapling

-

Lighttpd

ssl_stapling on;

Nginx

SSLUseStapling on

Apache

Should Be On

Certificate Transparency

• transparent
• append-only
• cryptographically assured
• reproducible
• publicly monitorable and auditable
• log

TLS 1.3

• Key Exchange

• Authentication
• Bulk Cipher
• Hash Algorithm

• Session Resumption

• Revocation Check

• Performance

• Support

Key Exchange

ephemeral

static

Diffie–Hellman

(DH)

Rivest–Shamir–Adleman

(RSA)

Elliptic-curve
Diffie–Hellman
(ECDH)

Elliptic-curve

Diffie–Hellman Ephemeral
(ECDHE)

Diffie-Hellman Ephemeral

(DHE)

Authentication

secure

insecure

anonymous

(NULL)

Rivest–Shamir–Adleman

(RSA)

Elliptic Curve

Digital Signature Algorithm
(ECDSA)

Digital Signature Algorithm

(DSA)

Edwards-Curve
Digital Signature Algorithm
(EdDSA)

unused

Stream Cipher

secure

insecure

Rivest Cipher 4

(ARCFOUR/RC4)

ChaCha

(ChaCha20)

Block Cipher

secure

insecure

Block Size of 64 bits

(DES, 3DES, GHOST, IDEA, RC2)

Advanced Encryption Standard

(AES128, AES256)

CBC mode only

(SEED)

unused

Far East

(ARIA, Camellia)

Block Cipher Mode

authenticated

not authenticated

Cipher Block Chaining

(CBC)

Galois/Counter Mode
(GCM)

Counter with CBC-MAC

(CCM/CCM-8)

MAC

secure

collisions

Message-Digest Algorithm 5

(MD5)

Poly1305
(POLY1305)

Secure Hash Algorithm 2

(SHA256, SHA384)

Secure Hash Algorithm 1

(SHA-1)

Cipher Suites

• TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384

• TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256

• TLS_AES_128_CCM_SHA256

• TLS_AES_128_CCM_8_SHA256
  

• TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256

Revocation Check

• Certificate Revocation List

• Online Certificate Status Protocol

  • Responders

  • Stapling

Session Resumption

PFS

obsolated

session resumption

(session id)

session resumption without server-side state

(session ticket)

non PFS

static pre-shared-key

(PSK_KE)

ephemeral pre-shared-key

(PSK_DHE_KE)

Performance

• Handshake

• Resumption

• Application layer

Support

library

browser

Most popular

(Chrome/Chromium, Firefox)

Less popular

(Apple, Edge)

server

CDN

Most popular

(Apache, NGINX)

Less popular

(IIS, Lighty)

Most popular

(Cloudflare, KeyCDN)

Most popular

(OpenSSL, GnuTLS)

Less popular

(Boring SSL, Fizz)

HTTPS

• Automatic Redirection to HTTPS

• HSTS Preload

• Security Headers

Secure Headers

• Automatic Redirect to HTTPS

• Public Key Pinning

• Defense against

  • Clickjacking

  • Content Injection Attacks

  • Cross-site scripting

HTTP STS

setenv.add-response-header=("Strict-Transport-Security"=>"Value")

Lighttpd

add_header Strict-Transport-Security 'Value' always;

Nginx

Header always set Strict-Transport-Security "Value"

Apache

max-age=63072000;
includeSubdomains;
preload

HTTP STS

HTTP Public Key Pinning

setenv.add-response-header=("Public-Key-Pins"=>"Value")

Lighttpd

add_header Public-Key-Pins 'Value' always;

Nginx

Header always set Public-Key-Pins "Value"

Apache

pin-sha256="GRAH5Ex+kB4cCQi5gMU82urf...";

report-uri="https://example.com/report/hpkp";
max-age=15768000;
includeSubDomains

Expect Staple

setenv.add-response-header=("Expect-Staple"=>"Value")

Lighttpd

add_header Expect-Staple 'Value' always;

Nginx

Header always set Expect-Staple "Value"

Apache

max-age=31536000;
report-uri="https://example.com/report/staple";
includeSubDomains;
preload

Expect CT

setenv.add-response-header=("Expect-Staple"=>"Value")

Lighttpd

add_header Expect-Staple 'Value' always;

Nginx

Header always set Expect-Staple "Value"

Apache

max-age=31536000;
report-uri="https://example.com/report/staple";
enforce

Clickjacking

setenv.add-response-header=("X-Frame-Options"=>"Value")

Lighttpd

add_header X-Frame-Options "Value" always;

Nginx

Header always set X-Frame-Options "Value"

Apache

deny/sameorigin

XSS Protection

setenv.add-response-header=("X-XSS-Protection"=>"Value")

Lighttpd

add_header X-XSS-Protection "Value" always;

Nginx

Header always set X-XSS-Protection "Value"

Apache

X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block

Feature Policy

setenv.add-response-header=("Feature-Policy"=>"Value")

Lighttpd

add_header Feature-Policy "Value" always;

Nginx

Header always set Feature-Policy "Value"

Apache

microphone 'none';

geolocation ''*'';

payment 'self';

...

Content Security Policy

setenv.add-response-header=("Content-Security-Policy"=>"Value")

Lighttpd

add_header Content-Security-Policy "Value" always;

Nginx

Header always set Content-Security-Policy "Value"

Apache

default-src https://same.domain:443

Tools

• Online checkers

• Offline checkers

• TLS offloaders

Online Checkers

• Transport Layer Security

  • SSL Labs
    

  • ImmuniWeb
    

  • CryptCheck
    

  • CypherCraft
    

  • Mozilla Observatory

• Security Headers

  • ImmuniWeb
  • securityheaders.io

Offline Checkers

• CipherScan

• Cryptolyzer

• SSLyze

• testssl.sh

• tls-scan

TLS offloaders

• HAProxy
• Squid
• Zorp GPL