Hello all,

I would like our secure server to default to 3DES 168-bit high
encryption for SSL sessions, but with the ability to fall back to 128-
bit RC4 _only_ if the client doesn't support 3DES. My current cipher-
spec for the SSLCipherSuite directive is 'HIGH:MEDIUM' which, with my
version of OpenSSL, equates to:

EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:EDH-DSS-DES-CBC3-SHA:DES-CBC3-SHA:DES-CBC3-
MD5:RC4-SHA:RC4-MD5:RC2-CBC-MD5:RC4-MD5

Is it possible to construct a cipher-spec string that will make
Apache/mod_ssl choose a 3DES cipher when both RC4 and 3DES are
'offered' by the client (most clients seem to offer RC4 ciphers before
3DES ones in the 'Client Hello').

It seems that unless I completely disable RC4 on the server, it always
gets chosen ahead of 3DES :-( This is my first post here so thanks in
advance for any help.

Kind Regards, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Daniel Eggleston 
Senior Network Developer 
Boxing Orange Ltd  
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