Test that ECDSA certificates can be loaded by OpenSSL on Linux

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    • Type: Task
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • Priority: Major - P3
    • 4.1.5
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    • Component/s: Security
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    • Security 2018-11-05
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      ECDHE based cipher suites tend to be slower than non-Forward Secrecy preserving variants. The mitigation for this is to deploy certificates containing ECDSA keys(preferably themselves signed by a CA with ECDSA). Because ECDSA is significantly faster than RSA, this results in comparable performance.

      We should generate an ECDSA certificate with OpenSSL, check it in into jstests/libs(with instructions describing how to regenerate it), and write a JSTest which validates that we can use it as an tlsPEMKeyFile. If any platforms fail to load the certificate, we should bake that information into the test.

            Assignee:
            Patrick Freed
            Reporter:
            Gregory McKeon (Inactive)
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