> Hello all, the cipher used for a particular session is:
> 
> CIPHER is: EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA
> 
> Can someone provide me of a break down of what ciphers are actually being used for 
>what operations? I am particularly interested in what cipher is being used for the 
>actual encryption / decryption of data transferred after the handshaking phase (i.e. 
>data transferred via SSL_read and SSL_write).

  EDH (ephemeral diffie-hellman) : Key exchange. That's is used to establish a 
read/write key pair for client and server.
  RSA  : signing diffie-hellman's key
  DES-CBC3 : triple des for all data encryption
  SHA : creating MAC for data records

> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Austin
> 
> 


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