Re: openssl without ssl2 switch
On 2014-Mar-25 20:37, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2014-03-25 17:23 +0100, Veljko wrote:
>
> > I wanted to test if ssl2 is turned off on server, so I tried with this
> > command line on my desktop:
> >
> > openssl s_client -connect server_ip:443 -ssl2
> >
> > but I'm getting
> >
> > "unknown option -ssl2
> > usage: s_client args"
> >
> > although displayed list of supported options list -ssl2 as valid. If
> > used with -ssl3 there is no error.
> >
> >
> > What could be the problem? openssl was built without ssl2 support?
>
> Exactly. From the Debian changelog:
>
> ,----
> | openssl (1.0.0c-2) experimental; urgency=low
> | [...]
> | * Drop SSL2 support (Closes: #589706)
> |
> | -- Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be> Sun, 19 Dec 2010 16:24:16 +0100
> `----
As last poster on that bug number asked, they should have removed it
from list of available options as well.
Anyhow, what would be now apropiate way of testing if some web server
still supports ssl2? Any other tool that can be used?
Regards,
Veljko
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