IPFire Open Source Firewall Linux Distribution Gets Cryptography Improvements

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IPFire, the open-source and free firewall distribution based on the Linux kernel, has been updated today to version 2.19 Core Update 120, a release that adds new features, improvements, and updated components.

IPFire 2.19 Core Update 120 is packed with quite a lot of new features that promise to improve the overall security of the operating system, as well as to increase the performance of various cryptographic operations. For the latter, the new release ships with the OpenSSL 1.1.0 cryptography library, which adds support for new ciphers.

“With this change, we have decided to entirely deprecate SSLv3 and the web user interface will require TLSv1.2 which is also the default for many other services. We have configured a hardened list of ciphers which only uses recent algorithms and entirely removes broken or weak algorithms like RC4, MD5 and so on,” said Michael Tremer in the release notes</a… (read more)
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