Bug#676563: exim4: new minimumum Diffie-Hellman length breaks sending, not configurable

Andreas Metzler ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org
Fri Jun 22 17:03:54 UTC 2012


On 2012-06-21 Eric Cooper <ecc at cmu.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 07:47:47PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> > How did you try to downgrade the tls_dh_min_bits setting and to which
> > value?

> I added a line of the form
>     tls_dh_min_bits = N
> to the file
>     /etc/exim4/conf.d/transport/30_exim4-config_remote_smtp_smarthost
> for N = 512, 256, and 64.  Each time I ran update-exim4.conf and restarted exim4.

> I'll try your way and see if that works for me.  (I'll also let CMU
> know about their short key length).  Thanks.

Thanks for the feedback (refering to the later mail where it worked
for you).

Whether the files under /etc/exim4/conf.d or
/etc/exim4/exim4.conf.localmacros together with
/etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template are used depends on whether you are
using split config.

file:///usr/share/doc/exim4-base/README.Debian.html#idp82720

cu andreas
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