This sounds suspiciously like a bug due to turning on compatibility
with broken SSL implementations that was found and quashed about a
week ago.  If you turn off backward-compatibility (including MSIE
broken SSL implementation), does the problem persist?

-Kyle H

On 2/8/06, Michael Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> A follow-up to my own post from last week.  I've done some more digging -
> hopefully this is enough for someone to offer some suggestions.
>
> I have been trying different versions of openssl with apache on solaris and
> sun cc.  With versions >= 0.9.7 (see below exact list of releases tested) I
> get the following error when trying to connect with Firefox with SSL3:
>
> [Wed Feb  8 14:08:07 2006] [error] mod_ssl: SSL handshake failed (server
> xxx:443, client 192.168.0.4) (OpenSSL library error follows)
> [Wed Feb  8 14:08:07 2006] [error] OpenSSL: error:1408F455:SSL
> routines:SSL3_GET_RECORD:decryption failed or bad record
> mac
>
> And the browser displays a popup saying "incorrect Message Authentication
> Code"
>
> Note that there are no problems whatsoever with IE, and that I can also get
> things to work fine if I set firefox or the web server not to use SSL3.
>
> The exact versions of openssl that I have tested are:
>
> * openssl-0.9.6b: works fine
> * openssl-0.9.6m: works fine
> * openssl-0.9.7a: fails
> * openssl-0.9.7e: fails
> * openssl-0.9.7i: fails
> * openssl-0.9.8: fails
> * openssl-0.9.8-stable-SNAP-20060131: fails
>
> Any ideas would be greatfully received.  Of course, using old versions of
> openssl causes other problems ...
>
> Thank you
>
> Michael
>
>
>
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