Thanks everyone, 

My server is slightly different but it looks like I'll
be able to set this up similarly 

--- Frank Hecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Nelson B Bolyard wrote:
> > The client sends the server a list, saying "these
> are
> > the cipher suites that I (client) support."  The
> server picks one,
> > and says "we'll use this one".  The server never
> says "I support all
> > of these."
> 
> To give a concrete example of this, with the Apache
> 2.0 web server and 
> the MOD_SSL Apache module server-side selection of a
> ciphersuite is 
> under control of the SSLCipherSuite directive:
> 
>   
>
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_ssl.html#sslciphersuite
> 
> Using this directive you can completely control the
> list of ciphersuites 
> from which the server makes its (single) choice of
> ciphersuite, 
> including the order of preference in the (typical)
> case where the client 
> supports multiple ciphersuites.
> 
> The various ways in which you can specify
> ciphersuite preferences in 
> Apache are somewhat complicated, but if you just
> want the server to 
> support only null ciphersuites then it is pretty
> straightforward: You 
> can just specify
> 
>    SSLCipherSuite NULL
> 
> to have your server support any null ciphersuite
> (and only null 
> ciphersuites), or (for example)
> 
>    SSLCipherSuite NULL-SHA
> 
> to have the server support only the NULL-SHA
> ciphersuite (the SSLv3 null 
> ciphersuite using RSA and SHA1).
> 
> As noted in the Apache documentation, for MOD_SSL
> you can use the 
> command 'openssl ciphers -v' to verify the list of
> ciphersuites that the 
> server will be using; thus for example the output of
> the command
> 
>    openssl ciphers -v 'NULL'
> 
> shows that using the Apache MOD_SSL directive
> 'SSLCipherSuite NULL' the 
> server's list of supported ciphersuites will be
> AECDH-NULL-SHA, 
> ECDH-RSA-NULL-SHA, ECDH-ECDSA-NULL-SHA, NULL-SHA,
> and NULL-MD5 in that 
> order.
> 
> Frank
> 
> -- 
> Frank Hecker
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