SSLCipherSuite

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The CA installation guide shows users how to import the CA root certificate into common browsers. From my experience, both IE and Chrome work as expected but Firefox is still complaining about the connection is not secure.

I then tried the SSLCipherSuite with different combinations in Apache 2.4 config and FireFox started to work!
Before (default values from Apache 2.4 build):

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SSLCipherSuite HIGH:MEDIUM:!SSLv3:!kRSA
SSLProxyCipherSuite HIGH:MEDIUM:!SSLv3:!kRSA

After:

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SSLCipherSuite EECDH+AESGCM:EDH+AESGCM:AES256+EECDH:AES256+EDH
SSLProxyCipherSuite EECDH+AESGCM:EDH+AESGCM:AES256+EECDH:AES256+EDH

Available prefixes are:

none: add cipher to list
+: move matching ciphers to the current location in list
-: remove cipher from list (can be added later again)
!: kill cipher from list completely (can not be added later again)

I tried a few more combinations and found FireFox doesn't like to see SSLv3 in SSLCipherSuite no matter what prefixes.

Not working:

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SSLCipherSuite ALL:!SSLv3
SSLCipherSuite ALL:-SSLv3
SSLCipherSuite HIGH:MEDIUM:!SSLv3
SSLCipherSuite HIGH:MEDIUM:-SSLv3

Working:

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SSLCipherSuite ALL:
SSLCipherSuite HIGH:MEDIUM
SSLCipherSuite HIGH:MEDIUM:!kRSA

Not sure why it doesn't like "!SSLv3" or "-SSLv3" but that's the result I got from testing.

To keep it simple and strong enough, the SSLCipherSuite can be set as:

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SSLCipherSuite HIGH:MEDIUM
SSLProxyCipherSuite HIGH:MEDIUM