7.5 Disabling SSL Renegotiations

You should disable SSL renegotiation as it is vulnerable to the man-in-the-middle attacks.

For information about how to disable SSL renegotiations in Administration Console and Identity Server, see the following sections:

SSL renegotiation is disabled in Access Gateway by default.

NOTE:You may consider enabling SSL renegotiation in the following scenarios

  • When you require a client authentication.

  • When you require a different set of encryption and decryption keys.

  • When you require a different set of encryption and hashing algorithms.

For information about how to enable SSL renegotiation, see SSL Renegotiation in the NetIQ Access Manager 4.2 Administration Guide .