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Erlend_123973
Nimbostratus
NimbostratusSSL Profile cipher inheritance
Hi,
I have some problem understanding how inheritance of the cipher option is inherited using parent profiles.
Consider this example:
The SSL Server Profile "sslserver_parent" has cipher su...
Kevin_Stewart
Employee
EmployeeUpdated values are rewritten. If you have RC4-MD5 in the parent and change the child to RC4-SHA, the resultant cipher string will only include RC4-SHA. You can test this with an ssldump on the server side VLAN.
ssldump -AdNn -i [server side vlan] port 443 and host [IP of backend server]
Since the BIG-IP is the client in this case, it'll send its complete supported cipher list in its ClientHello message.