Insecure TLS_RSA_WITH_NULL_MD5
- IANA name:
- TLS_RSA_WITH_NULL_MD5
- OpenSSL name:
- NULL-MD5
- GnuTLS name:
- TLS_RSA_NULL_MD5
- Hex code:
- 0x00, 0x01
- TLS Version(s):
- TLS1.0, TLS1.1, TLS1.2, TLS1.3
- Protocol:
- Transport Layer Security (TLS)
- Key Exchange:
- Rivest Shamir Adleman algorithm (RSA)
- Authentication:
- Rivest Shamir Adleman algorithm (RSA)
- Encryption:
- NULL Encryption (NULL)
- Hash:
- HMAC Message Digest 5 (MD5)
- Included in RFC:
- Machine-readable:
- application/json
This key exchange algorithm does not support Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS) which is recommended, so attackers cannot decrypt the complete communication stream.
There are reports that servers using the RSA authentication algorithm with keys longer than 3072-bit may experience heavy performance issues leading to connection timeouts and even service unavailability if many clients open simultaneous connections.
This cipher suite uses no encryption at all. Hence, it does not provide confidentiality protection.
The Message Digest 5 algorithm suffers form multiple vulnerabilities and is considered insecure.