Required TLS Settings

To ensure secure communication and protect data in transit, all clients connecting to our APIs must meet the following Transport Layer Security (TLS) requirements:

✅ Minimum TLS Version

  • TLS 1.2 or higher is required
  • TLS 1.0 and 1.1 are not supported

❌ Deprecated Cipher Suites

Connections using the following will be rejected:

  • SSL/TLS protocols below TLS 1.2
  • Cipher suites using:
    • RSA key exchange without PFS
    • SHA-1 or MD5 hashes
    • Block ciphers without AEAD (e.g., CBC without GCM)

🔑 Cipher Suite Requirements for Clients

  • Ensure your client libraries (e.g., OpenSSL, Java, curl) are up to date
  • Validate that your system negotiates TLS 1.2+ with modern cipher support according to Fastly’s TLS Guidelines
  • Avoid hardcoding legacy ciphers or TLS versions

The following ciphers are supported on TLS 1.2, the minimum standard version of TLS supported by Fastly.

RFC Cipher Nameopenssl Cipher Name
TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256
TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256
TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305
TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305
TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256
TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256

For full compatibility details, refer to Fastly’s TLS configuration guide.