On Fri, Nov 21, 2014, Chris Bare wrote:

> Is there a way to query the BIO or SSL object to see which cipher is being
> used?
> I have a case where my openssl client's performance is significantly slower
> when talking to server A vs server B. AFAIK, the only difference between A
> and B is the level of Windows updates, so I'm suspicious that Windows has
> started to favor the slower ECC ciphers, but I need a way to prove it.
> 

SSL_get_cipher_name().

What do you mean by "peformance" the initial connection speed or the data
transfer rate? With ECC the curve used is also significant: you can query that
using OpenSSL 1.0.2+ which allows you to get details of the server temporary
key.

Steve.
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