I have found a problem with openSSL on FC8. The site being connected to has a TLSv1 and SSLV3 SSL Certificate, however as of Fedora Core 6 onwards if SSLv2 is disabled an SSL connection can not be negotiated. openssl s_client -no_ssl2 -connect xxxxxx.xxxx.com:443 CONNECTED(00000003) 2159:error:140790E5:SSL routines:SSL23_WRITE:ssl handshake failure:s23_lib.c:188: On Fedora Core 4 it works fine and wither a TLSv1 or SSLv3 connection can be made. New, TLSv1/SSLv3, Cipher is RC4-MD5 Server public key is 1024 bit SSL-Session: Protocol : TLSv1 Cipher : RC4-MD5 Session-ID: 00152056A7A28668B4EB1451B8A2F6809C29A16858585858474743BD00006718 Session-ID-ctx: Master-Key: 720DC5F3697624BF8C3BEA800AC9EB386B234BB759F9ACD338ADA9DDEBB090 9FD693C0F32DD0A6D577D6CA18A6345C72 Key-Arg : None Krb5 Principal: None Start Time: 1195851233 Timeout : 300 (sec) Verify return code: 18 (self signed certificate) This encounted on a live server at a data centre running Fedora Core 6. I then did a fresh install on another machine at the office of FC6 and reproduced the problem. I then did a fresh install of FC8 on the same machine and again managed to reproduce them straight away. I have since downgraded the live server to FC4 and it has Fixed the issue. Problem is not apparent in FC4, Enterprise 3 Or enterprise 4. Happy to provide the server name off list or do any debugging If someone can tell me what they need. Thanks in advance Duncan