For all interested this is the output of the ssldump. As you can see at the end the connection abruptly aborts with the error "Length missmatch".
> SSL3_READ_BYTES:sslv3 alert bad record mac:s3_pkt.c:1061:SSL alert number 20 > sudo /usr/sbin/ssldump -dA -i lo port 9111 New TCP connection #1: localhost(40928) <-> localhost(9111) 1 1 0.0024 (0.0024) C>S V3.0(46) Handshake ClientHello Version 3.0 random[32]= 4b 7d 93 5d 44 67 fa 34 bb 65 b1 0c c4 17 4a 11 3e 6d 7d c2 5a b2 a0 9c 06 6e 2c 18 cf 0d 97 bf cipher suites SSL_DH_anon_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA compression methods 1 2 0.1369 (0.1344) S>C V3.0(74) Handshake ServerHello Version 3.0 random[32]= 4b 7d 93 5d 55 3c 42 37 97 97 c9 8a b5 d4 c5 f3 e1 52 b5 99 19 7d 87 ba 37 d2 53 e0 75 5a dc 1e session_id[32]= c7 17 ad 4c a6 df b4 1d 13 9f ac 30 c2 aa 55 69 ec 45 b2 32 e7 dd 02 30 f6 33 15 73 0e e7 68 6c cipherSuite SSL_DH_anon_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA compressionMethod 1 3 0.1369 (0.0000) S>C V3.0(43) Handshake ServerKeyExchange params DH_p[16]= e4 e6 af d5 73 b5 4e ad e3 3e ac f1 c8 bd 4a 4b DH_g[1]= 05 DH_Ys[16]= 30 cf ea 85 03 4a 0e 0e 3a 35 75 bd c8 eb 73 50 Short read: 0 bytes available (expecting 2) 1 4 0.1369 (0.0000) S>C V3.0(4) Handshake ServerHelloDone 1 5 0.1464 (0.0095) C>S V3.0(22) Handshake ClientKeyExchange DiffieHellmanClientPublicValue[16]= 38 ca 42 ff 04 e0 29 e2 0d 5b 6f bc f2 b7 14 25 1 6 0.1464 (0.0000) C>S V3.0(1) ChangeCipherSpec 1 7 0.1464 (0.0000) C>S V3.0(80) Handshake 1 8 0.1843 (0.0379) S>C V3.0(1) ChangeCipherSpec 1 9 0.1843 (0.0000) S>C V3.0(80) Handshake 1 10 0.1969 (0.0125) C>S V3.0(24) application_data 1 11 0.1969 (0.0000) C>S V3.0(40) application_data 1 12 0.1973 (0.0003) C>S V3.0(24) application_data 1 13 0.1973 (0.0000) C>S V3.0(32) application_data 1 14 0.1974 (0.0001) C>S V3.0(24) application_data [snip] ----------%<------------ [snip] 1 38 0.1987 (0.0001) C>S V3.0(24) application_data 1 39 0.1987 (0.0000) C>S V3.0(32) application_data 1 40 0.1988 (0.0001) C>S V3.0(24) application_data 1 41 0.1988 (0.0000) C>S V3.0(32) application_data 1 42 0.3210 (0.1221) S>C V3.0(24) application_data 1 43 0.3210 (0.0000) S>C V3.0(40) application_data 1 44 0.3212 (0.0002) S>C V3.0(24) application_data 1 45 0.3212 (0.0000) S>C V3.0(32) application_data 1 46 0.3213 (0.0000) S>C V3.0(24) application_data 1 47 0.3213 (0.0000) S>C V3.0(32) application_data 1 48 0.3213 (0.0000) S>C V3.0(24) application_data 1 49 0.3213 (0.0000) S>C V3.0(32) application_data ERROR: Length mismatch P.S.: I am sorry for the double post but after 1 hour of waiting I was not sure if the message would ever appear on the mailing-list.