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Sadly, I've come to the conclusion that it's no longer possible to build future-proof cipher suite configuration in a generic way. There are simply too many rules to follow, if you want to get everything right. I spent lots of time trying and in the end gave up.

Now I give my recommendations as an ordered list of suites. It's easy to set up, does exactly what you want and, as a bonus, everyone can look at the list and understand which suites exactly are configured.

That said, I'd like to see good default configurations in libraries and server programs, which can be updated via patches as needed. Then we wouldn't really need to bother with cipher suite configuration at all.



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