EXP-RC2-CBC-MD5 does not appear to work in 0.9.8y. It does in 0.9.8x. system:user/openssl-0.9.8y/apps 27% ./openssl s_client -connect 10.1.1.1:443 -tls1 -cipher EXP-RC2-CBC-MD5
CONNECTED(00000003) <certificate stuff deleted> 95776:error:1408F119:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_RECORD:decryption failed or bad record mac:s3_pkt.c:435: system:user/openssl-0.9.8x/apps 16% ./openssl s_client -connect 10.1.1.1:443 -tls1 -cipher EXP-RC2-CBC-MD5 CONNECTED(00000003) <server certificate stuff deleted> --- No client certificate CA names sent --- SSL handshake has read 1362 bytes and written 184 bytes --- New, TLSv1/SSLv3, Cipher is EXP-RC2-CBC-MD5 Server public key is 2048 bit Secure Renegotiation IS NOT supported Compression: NONE Expansion: NONE SSL-Session: Protocol : TLSv1 Cipher : EXP-RC2-CBC-MD5 Session-ID: <deleted> Session-ID-ctx: Master-Key: <deleted> Key-Arg : None Start Time: 1361574211 Timeout : 7200 (sec) Verify return code: 18 (self signed certificate) --- <connected>