TLS version and ciphers in Istio mTLS

1/11/2019

I have implemented mTLS for service-to-service security using Istio 1.0.4 on Kubernetes. Is there a configuration to specify the cipher and TLS versions to use with Citadel?

-- randhir singh
istio
kubernetes
mtls

1 Answer

5/20/2019

This may not answer the specific question, but I thought it would be nice to let you know that others have asked this question. See links below:

https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/8769 https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/13138

Dealing with ingress traffic is a little different. I may be mistaken, but I think when submitting you own private/public keys, if applicable, istio loads those secrets and read/applies the appropriate ciphers according to the way the secrets were created. See links below for examples:

https://preliminary.istio.io/docs/tasks/traffic-management/secure-ingress/sds/ https://preliminary.istio.io/docs/tasks/traffic-management/secure-ingress/mount/

-- dghant1024
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