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[PATCH] add support for specifying an SSL cipher list

From
Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars@redhat.com>
Date
May 7, 2015, 14:16 UTC
Message-ID
<1431008210-673-1-git-send-email-lars@redhat.com>

Teach git about a new option, "http.sslCipherList", which permits one to specify a list of ciphers to use when negotiating SSL connections. The setting can be overwridden by the GIT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST environment variable.

Signed-off-by: Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars@redhat.com>
---

I was recently helping someone diagnose the following error when trying to clone a remote repository:

  fatal: unable to access 'https://example.org/': Cannot communicate
  securely with peer: no common encryption algorithm(s).

This happens when the remote server and the default libcurl configuration do not share any ciphers in common. In this particular case the solution was to add 'ecdhe_ecdsa_aes_128_gcm_sha_256' to the list of ciphers via CURLOPT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST. This patch permits one to make such a configuration change in git.

 Documentation/config.txt |  7 +++++++
 http.c                   | 11 +++++++++++
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 2e5ceaf..b17985c 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -1560,6 +1560,13 @@ http.saveCookies::
 	If set, store cookies received during requests to the file specified by
 	http.cookieFile. Has no effect if http.cookieFile is unset.
 
+http.sslCipherList::
+  A list of SSL ciphers to use when negotiating an SSL connection.
+  The available ciphers depend on whether libcurl was built against
+  NSS or OpenSSL and the particular configuration of the crypto
+  library in use.  Can be overwridden by the 'GIT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST'
+  environment variable.
+
 http.sslVerify::
 	Whether to verify the SSL certificate when fetching or pushing
 	over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the 'GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY' environment
diff --git a/http.c b/http.c
index 4b179f6..8077f8d 100644
--- a/http.c
+++ b/http.c
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ char curl_errorstr[CURL_ERROR_SIZE];
 static int curl_ssl_verify = -1;
 static int curl_ssl_try;
 static const char *ssl_cert;
+static const char *ssl_cipherlist;
 #if LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM >= 0x070903
 static const char *ssl_key;
 #endif
@@ -187,6 +188,9 @@ static int http_options(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb)
 		curl_ssl_verify = git_config_bool(var, value);
 		return 0;
 	}
+	if (!strcmp("http.sslcipherlist", var)) {
+		return git_config_string(&ssl_cipherlist, var, value);
+	}
 	if (!strcmp("http.sslcert", var))
 		return git_config_string(&ssl_cert, var, value);
 #if LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM >= 0x070903
@@ -361,6 +365,13 @@ static CURL *get_curl_handle(void)
 	if (http_proactive_auth)
 		init_curl_http_auth(result);
 
+	if (getenv("GIT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST"))
+		ssl_cipherlist = getenv("GIT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST");
+
+	if (ssl_cipherlist != NULL)
+		curl_easy_setopt(result, CURLOPT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST,
+				ssl_cipherlist);
+
 	if (ssl_cert != NULL)
 		curl_easy_setopt(result, CURLOPT_SSLCERT, ssl_cert);
 	if (has_cert_password())
-- 
2.4.0
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  7. Tay Ray ChuanMay 7, 2015
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  9. http: add support for specifying an SSL cipher listLars Kellogg-Stedman, May 7, 2015
  10. Eric SunshineMay 7, 2015
  11. Lars Kellogg-StedmanMay 7, 2015
  12. Eric SunshineMay 7, 2015
  13. Junio C HamanoMay 7, 2015
  14. http: add support for specifying an SSL cipher listLars Kellogg-Stedman, May 8, 2015
  15. Eric SunshineMay 8, 2015
  16. SZEDER GáborMay 8, 2015
  17. Junio C HamanoMay 8, 2015
  18. http: add support for specifying an SSL cipher listLars Kellogg-Stedman, May 8, 2015
  19. Lars Kellogg-StedmanMay 14, 2015
  20. Eric SunshineMay 14, 2015

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