Re: openssl without ssl2 switch

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

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
`----

Cheers,
       Sven