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by jrochkind1 4652 days ago
Why can't get the 'best config for security' be default out of the box on nginx and apache httpd? That's the only way we're actually going to have a secure web, ain't it?
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There's been a lot of recent flux in what the consensus on "best config for security" even is in the past six months. We went through a phase where RC4 was the recommended cipher, now we're mostly coming around to it being a bad idea, for instance, and that's still a thing in progress rather than totally done.
Seems like someone should invent a way to easily get automatic updates to your ssl config in apache and/or nginx.

I know I'm not the only one with half a dozen, a dozen, or dozens of web servers I am responsible for -- who realistically isn't going to keep track of what the current consensus is and go updating the ssl configuration even every six months.

That would be Puppet, Chef, etc.