ECC certificates and TLS policy 2018-06-21

[davidep]

A new TLS policy is available: 2018-06-21.

• The slapd service (local LDAP accounts provider) is now protected against POODLE if the new policy is enabled
• The Server Manager now sanitizes the uploaded certificates, by appending EOL if missing /thanks @Stll0
• It is now possible to upload a sci-fi ECC certificate with Server Manager
• The new policy allows to select an ECC certificate as system-wide default /thanks @stephdl

See also the manual:

http://docs.nethserver.org/en/latest/tlspolicy.html#policy-2018-06-21

This feature was discussed here /thanks @danb35

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