TLS v 1.3 Not working on Nginx

Posted on December 27, 2019

Let's Encrypt

Ubuntu 18.04

Nginx

Security

By George Chanturidze

I have Ubuntu 18.04, Nginx version 1.17.6, OpenSSL version 1.1.1 . - I believe those satisfy requirements for TLS 1.3.

In my /etc/nginx/nginx.conf file I added TLSv1.3 like so:

ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2 TLSv1.3;

I have not changed anything in **/etc/nginx/sites-available/website.com **.

When I test my site in SSL Labs and elsewhere, TLSv1.3 is not working.

I checked nginx -V, and --with-openSSL argument is not listed. Not sure if I have to rebuild my nginx with that flag.

Any pointers would be appreciated

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alexdo

December 31, 2019

Hello, @geochanto

May I ask if you’ve also updated the SSL ciphers as well? You should be able to enable TLS 1.3 using the following steps:

Open your Nginx server block file in /etc/nginx/conf.d/ directory or /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/ directory. Find the following line.

ssl_protocols  TLSv1.2;

Add TLSv1.3 to the list of protocols.

ssl_protocols TLSv1.2 TLSv1.3;

Then add the following 3 cipher suites to your existing cipher suites.

TLS-CHACHA20-POLY1305-SHA256
TLS-AES-256-GCM-SHA384
TLS-AES-128-GCM-SHA256

like so:

ssl_ciphers 'TLS-CHACHA20-POLY1305-SHA256:TLS-AES-256-GCM-SHA384:TLS-AES-128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256';

Save and close the file. Then test Nginx configuration and reload.