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cipherscan
Python2013–2017
mozilla / cipherscan

cipherscan

A very simple way to find out which SSL ciphersuites are supported by a target.

4Distinct people
6Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
2KGitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

A very simple way to find out which SSL ciphersuites are supported by a target.

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

Author of Server Side TLS here. Almost everyone should be able to use the intermediate configuration we propose. I recommend our conf generator at…

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 12:54:37 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year6 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2013-07-18 00:46:25 UTC to 2017-09-28 18:47:29 UTC.

0122013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20132014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2017

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Hm, looks like maybe a ticket should be filed against: https://github.com/ssllabs/research/wiki/SSL-and-TLS-Deploym... As it stands, the point on resumption reads a little on the positive side?: > 3.2 Use Session Resumption > Session resumption is a performance-optimization technique that makes it possible to save the results of costly cryptographic operations and to reuse them for a period of time. A disabled or nonfunctional session resumption mechanism may introduce a significant performance penalty. Does http2 have similar issues with session resumption (especially: compromised pfs)? I came across this, which documents how cloudscape does this securely - at least they rotate - but looks like read access to memcache+compromise of a single web server is enough to compromise the past hour or two of ssl traffic that goes through cloudflar
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e? https://blog.cloudflare.com/tls-session-resumption-full-spee... [ed: also came over this: https://github.com/mozilla/cipherscan Which looks very handy for sanity-checking servers.]
In TLS 1.2 Session Tickets

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