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Martin Horský
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Why does SSL Labs now consider CBC suites weak?

Does anyone know, why does SSL labs now mark CBC 256 suites as weak, although equivalent GCM and ChaCha20 are considered strong? Until a few months ago, it was unmarked in reports (neither explicitly as weak or strong), and it is still unmarked in their client lists.

The suites in question are:

  • TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384
  • TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA
  • TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384
  • TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA
  • TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384
  • TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA

The SHA1s are a requirement to support EDIT: Android 5 and 6 with 4x100% score. It still gets 4x100% score, but it marks it as weak, which from an OCD perspective doesn't look "unprofessional".

Martin Horský
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