> -----Original Message-----
> From: Victor Duchovni
>
> On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 11:36:01AM -0600, Mike Brennan wrote:
>
> > It seems that Openssl doesn't always obey the server's priority
>
>       s/doesn't always obey/never by default obeys/
>
> > ordered list of ciphers (set with SSL_set_cipher_list()), even when
> > that list is syntactically correct, when the ciphers are available,
> > and when the client capabilities don't constrain the choice.
>
> By default the server respects the client's priority. If you want
> the server to pre-empt the client's preference list, try:
>
> SSL_CTX_set_options(3) or SSL_set_options(3):
>
>       SSL_OP_CIPHER_SERVER_PREFERENCE

Apache also has an option for activating this: SSLHonorCipherOrder


HTH,
Patrick Eisenacher
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