Title: Description of Server Output Messages
Course: Introduction to SSL/PKI > Section: SSL/TLS

Description of Server Server Output Messages

Note: It is not important to know the gruesome details of the client/server handshake exchange. Instead the following it to give a general feel of what takes place during it.

Server Now Accepting connections

  ACCEPT


Client/Server Handshake Messages

  SSL_accept:before/accept initialization
  SSL_accept:SSLv3 read client hello A
  SSL_accept:SSLv3 write server hello A
  SSL_accept:SSLv3 write certificate A
  SSL_accept:SSLv3 write key exchange A
  SSL_accept:SSLv3 write server done A
  SSL_accept:SSLv3 flush data
  SSL_accept:SSLv3 read client key exchange A
  SSL_accept:SSLv3 read finished A
  SSL_accept:SSLv3 write session ticket A
  SSL_accept:SSLv3 write change cipher spec A
  SSL_accept:SSLv3 write finished A
  SSL_accept:SSLv3 flush data


SSL Session Parameters (base64 format)

  -----BEGIN SSL SESSION PARAMETERS-----
  MFoCAQECAgMBBAIAOQQABDBXPH7hixGewTO8AxYjMlFs/3hDIs/NVt1FXPXIwDfu
  q1I2XTyPKFe4v1NRB1810CShBgIETjlZVKIEAgIBLKQGBAQBAAAAqwMEAQE=
  -----END SSL SESSION PARAMETERS-----


Cipher Suites Supported By Both Client and Server

  Shared ciphers:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA:AES256-SHA:
  EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:EDH-DSS-DES-CBC3-SHA:DES-CBC3-SHA:
  DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:DHE-DSS-AES128-SHA:AES128-SHA:RC4-SHA:
  RC4-MD5:EDH-RSA-DES-CBC-SHA:EDH-DSS-DES-CBC-SHA:DES-CBC-SHA:
  EXP-EDH-RSA-DES-CBC-SHA:EXP-EDH-DSS-DES-CBC-SHA:EXP-DES-CBC-SHA:
  EXP-RC2-CBC-MD5:EXP-RC4-MD5


Ciper Suite Selected for Session

  CIPHER is DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA


SSL Connection Created and Ready to Exchange Messages