My client is running in Windows 2008 R2. The client is trying to connect to custom Linux box using SSL. The client was working before; but stopped working after the server redistricted cipher suites to just the following ones: AES128-SHA, AES256-SHA, DHE-RSA-RES128-SHA, DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA I used Wireshark and found that the client is offering only the following cipher suites: TLS_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA TLS_RSA_WITH_EDE_CBC_SHA TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA and TLS_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5 The server immedially report 'Handshake failure'. Why client is presenting only these 4; windows 2008 r2 DOES support several more ciphers? Is there a way to force client to offer specific ciphers? Thanks Jas

Hi Jas, The following articles might be helpful for you: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd560670(v=ws.10).aspx http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977321 Hope it helps. Regards, Bruce