
A better SSL cipher checker using gnutls
cipherTest.sh is a "better" SSL cipher checker in that it uses gnutls, which has support for many more configurations than openssl. It tests potentially ~3,200 different configurations (but does some pre-optimization so that it minimizes "failed" checks.)
It relies on openssl and gnutls-cli
sudo apt-get install gnutls-bin
Example output:
$ cipherTest www.host.com 443
Proto Cipher MAC KeX
------------------------------------------------
SSL2.0 DES-CBC3-MD5 MD5 RSA
SSL2.0 RC2-CBC-MD5 MD5 RSA
SSL2.0 RC4-MD5 MD5 RSA
SSL2.0 DES-CBC-MD5 MD5 RSA
SSL2.0 EXP-RC2-CBC-MD5 MD5 RSA
SSL2.0 EXP-RC4-MD5 MD5 RSA
SSL3.0 3DES-CBC SHA1 RSA
SSL3.0 ARCFOUR-128 SHA1 RSA
SSL3.0 ARCFOUR-128 MD5 RSA
SSL3.0 ARCFOUR-40 MD5 RSA-EXPORT
TLS1.0 3DES-CBC SHA1 RSA
TLS1.0 ARCFOUR-128 SHA1 RSA
TLS1.0 ARCFOUR-128 MD5 RSA
TLS1.0 ARCFOUR-40 MD5 RSA-EXPORT