nginx-ssl.conf

# Nginx SSL configuration used on butters.xcloud.com.ar to get a A+ on Qualys SSL Labs tests 
# (https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html)
# Check this gist for updates (https://gist.github.com/hgranillo/da7eef5045f57e5b4cd9c03bcfd44cbf)

# Path to certificate and private key.
# The .crt may omit the root CA cert, if it's a standard CA that ships with clients.
# You may want to configure this on your virtualhosts server block.
#ssl_certificate /path/to/unified.crt;
#ssl_certificate_key /path/to/my-private-decrypted.key;

# Tell browsers to require SSL (warning: difficult to change your mind)
# Handled by the management daemon because we can toggle this version or a
# preload version.
#add_header Strict-Transport-Security max-age=31536000;

# Prefer certain ciphersuites, to enforce Forward Secrecy and avoid known vulnerabilities.
# 
# Forces forward secrecy in all browsers and clients that can use TLS,
# but with a small exception (DES-CBC3-SHA) for IE8/XP users.
# 
# Reference client: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
ssl_ciphers 'kEECDH+ECDSA+AES128 kEECDH+ECDSA+AES256 kEECDH+AES128 kEECDH+AES256 kEDH+AES128 kEDH+AES256 DES-CBC3-SHA +SHA !aNULL !eNULL !LOW !MD5 !EXP !DSS !PSK !SRP !kECDH !CAMELLIA !RC4 !SEED';

# Cut out (the old, broken) SSLv3 entirely. 
# This **excludes IE6 users** and (apparently) Yandexbot.
# Just comment out if you need to support IE6, bless your soul.
ssl_protocols TLSv1.2 TLSv1.1 TLSv1;

# Turn on session resumption, using a 10 min cache shared across nginx processes,
# as recommended by http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/configuring_https_servers.html
ssl_session_cache   shared:SSL:10m;
ssl_session_timeout 10m;
#keepalive_timeout   70; # in Ubuntu 14.04/nginx 1.4.6 the default is 65, so plenty good

# Buffer size of 1400 bytes fits in one MTU.
# nginx 1.5.9+ ONLY
#ssl_buffer_size 1400; 

# SPDY header compression (0 for none, 9 for slow/heavy compression). Preferred is 6. 
# 
# BUT: header compression is flawed and vulnerable in SPDY versions 1 - 3.
# Disable with 0, until using a version of nginx with SPDY 4 or nginx 1.9.5
# Since HTTP/2 doesn't use gzip compression for headers and in nginx 1.9.5 and
# ngx_http_spdy_module was superseded by the ngx_http_v2_module module in 1.9.5. 
spdy_headers_comp 0;


# Now let's really get fancy, and pre-generate a 2048 bit random parameter
# for DH elliptic curves. If not created and specified, default is only 1024 bits. 
#
# Generated by OpenSSL with the following command:
#   openssl dhparam -outform pem -out dhparam2048.pem 2048
# 
# Note: raising the bits to 2048 excludes Java 6 clients. Comment out if a problem.
ssl_dhparam /etc/nginx/ssl/dhparam2048.pem;


# OCSP stapling - means nginx will poll the CA for signed OCSP responses, 
# and send them to clients so clients don't make their own OCSP calls.
# http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCSP_stapling
# 
# while the ssl_certificate above may omit the root cert if the CA is trusted,
# ssl_trusted_certificate below must point to a chain of **all** certs
# in the trust path - (your cert, intermediary certs, root cert)
#
# 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 below are Google's public IPv4 DNS servers. 
# nginx will use them to talk to the CA.
ssl_stapling on;
ssl_stapling_verify on;
resolver 127.0.0.1 valid=86400;
resolver_timeout 10;