[CentOS] dovecot option PROFILE=SYSTEM

Wed Jan 6 15:04:48 UTC 2021
Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com>

On Wed, 6 Jan 2021, Kenneth Porter wrote:

> --On Tuesday, January 05, 2021 7:40 PM -0800 david <david at daku.org> wrote:
>
>> In examining the file
>>   /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-ssl.conf
>> I see the text line:
>>   ssl_cipher_list = PROFILE=SYSTEM
>> 
>> Yet, I cannot find any documentation that explains what that causes,
>> where the values are stored.  I ask because I don't see that text line in
>> other installations of Dovecot 2.3 on other distros.  Can anyone point me
>> to an explanation?
>
> The value of ssl_cipher_list is passed directly to OpenSSL's 
> SSL_CTX_set_cipher_list():
>
> <https://www.openssl.org/docs/man1.0.2/man3/SSL_CTX_set_cipher_list.html>
>
> See here for the meaning of PROFILE=SYSTEM:
>
> <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/CryptoPolicy#Scope>

Additionally, on your local system, look at

* the crypto-policies(7) man page
* the update-crypto-policies(8) man page
* the contents of the /etc/crypto-policies directory tree

Several applications use these policies, so it's worthwhile to take a 
look around.

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