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How to disable CBC mode and to use 3DES in universal forwarder 8089 port?

prakashraja1999
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How to disable CBC mode and to use 3DES in universal forwarder 8089 port?

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PickleRick
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Well. CBC and 3DES are separate things. Although I never heard of 3DES used in any other mode than CBC.

Anyway, if you want to enable 3DES you may try cipherSuite setting in [SSL] stanza of server.conf or in appropriate inputs.conf stanza. But you really shouldn't do that. 3DES is not considered secure and TLS1.3 explicitly doesn't include this suite.

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prakashraja1999
Loves-to-Learn Everything

Thanks for your answer,

Questions,


1. Do these changes are to be made in indexers or Universal forwarder??

2. Do i want to configure/change anything in the certificates?

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PickleRick
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

 Depends on the rest of your configuration. TLS negotiation is - as the name suggests - a negotiation so both sides participate in it to find overlapping set of parameters acceptable to both sides. So if you set one side to accept only 3DES-CBC and the other to stick to AES-GCM the negotiation will fail.

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