[stunnel-users] stunnel log shows SSLv3 protocol level even when TLSv1 was negotiated

[Jochen Bern]

On 02/03/2015 04:00 PM, christian.tenvenne at lhsystems.com wrote:
> My client's ssl-log (-Djavax.net.debug=ssl) confirms that, during
> handshake and for application data, the highest TLS protocol
> version is being used.
> 
> How come, stunnel log still shows "SSLv3" ?

The protocols etc. that happen "under the hood" haven't been redefined
*completely from scratch* for TLS, so "old" names reappear when you dig
into the details. OpenSSL talks about "SSLv3" when making a TLS 1.2
connection, too:

> $ ( sleep 1 ; echo "HEAD / HTTP/1.0" ; echo "" ; sleep 2 ) | \
> > openssl s_client -connect www.nec-store.de:443 -tls1_2 -state 2>&1 \
> > | egrep '(SSL|TLS)v'
> SSL_connect:SSLv3 write client hello A
> SSL_connect:SSLv3 read server hello A
> SSL_connect:SSLv3 read server certificate A
> SSL_connect:SSLv3 read server key exchange A
> SSL_connect:SSLv3 read server done A
> SSL_connect:SSLv3 write client key exchange A
> SSL_connect:SSLv3 write change cipher spec A
> SSL_connect:SSLv3 write finished A
> SSL_connect:SSLv3 flush data
> SSL_connect:SSLv3 read server session ticket A
> SSL_connect:SSLv3 read finished A
> New, TLSv1/SSLv3, Cipher is ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
>     Protocol  : TLSv1.2

Regards,
								J. Bern
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