On 2009-12-21 02:52 PST, Abhishek Rahirikar wrote:
> Hello Wan-Teh and All,
> 
> I am now getting curiously confused with the problem.
> 
> Another cipher I saw today which has similar issues.
> 
> Tool using NSS fails to perform handshake with cipher 
> SSL_RSA_WITH_DES_CBC_SHA. But Openssl is able to perform handshake with its 
> cipher equivalant DES-CBC-SHA.
> I am doubtful if this cipher is also not supported by the NSS? If it is so 
> then why this time it fails to handshake?
> NSS version the tool using is 3.12.
> 
>> I don't know why the tool can get all the information using
>> a cipher that NSS doesn't support.   NSS cannot request
>> the SSL_DH_anon_EXPORT_WITH_DES40_CBC_SHA cipher,
>> so a server cannot possibly select that cipher when
>> communicating with an NSS-based client.
> 
> Is there any detail document available for SSL_ForceHandshake.

Have you looked at the online reference manual for libSSL functions?
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/ref/ssl/sslfnc.html#1133431

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