cipherchecks

visually see issues with supported cipher suites

Theres a few known tools out there that will check the cipher suites accepted by a system. This is my attempt in making the output of the results more readable.

For example, using sslscan, to only have a list of supported ciphers, you will need to grep for 'Accepted'.

$ sslscan github.com | grep Accepted
Accepted  TLSv1.3  256 bits  TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256  Curve 25519 DHE 253
Accepted  TLSv1.3  256 bits  TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384        Curve 25519 DHE 253
Accepted  TLSv1.2  128 bits  ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256   Curve 25519 DHE 253
Accepted  TLSv1.2  256 bits  ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 Curve 25519 DHE 253
Accepted  TLSv1.2  256 bits  ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305   Curve 25519 DHE 253
Accepted  TLSv1.2  256 bits  ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 Curve 25519 DHE 253
Accepted  TLSv1.2  256 bits  ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384   Curve 25519 DHE 253
Accepted  TLSv1.2  128 bits  ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256     Curve 25519 DHE 253
Accepted  TLSv1.2  128 bits  ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256       Curve 25519 DHE 253
Accepted  TLSv1.2  256 bits  ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384     Curve 25519 DHE 253
Accepted  TLSv1.2  256 bits  ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384       Curve 25519 DHE 253
Accepted  TLSv1.2  256 bits  ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA        Curve 25519 DHE 253
Accepted  TLSv1.2  256 bits  ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA          Curve 25519 DHE 253
Accepted  TLSv1.2  128 bits  AES128-GCM-SHA256
Accepted  TLSv1.2  256 bits  AES256-GCM-SHA384
Accepted  TLSv1.2  128 bits  AES128-SHA256
Accepted  TLSv1.2  256 bits  AES256-SHA256
Accepted  TLSv1.2  128 bits  AES128-SHA
Accepted  TLSv1.2  256 bits  AES256-SHA

testssl.sh does way more than just listing the accepted ciphers, however the output of that is skewed too.

$ testssl -E github.com

...snip...

Hexcode  Cipher Suite Name (OpenSSL)       KeyExch.   Encryption  Bits     Cipher Suite Name (IANA/RFC)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SSLv2
SSLv3
TLS 1
TLS 1.1
TLS 1.2
 xc030   ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384       ECDH 253   AESGCM      256      TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
 xc02c   ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384     ECDH 253   AESGCM      256      TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
 xc028   ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384           ECDH 253   AES         256      TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384
 xc024   ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384         ECDH 253   AES         256      TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384
 xc014   ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA              ECDH 253   AES         256      TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA
 xc00a   ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA            ECDH 253   AES         256      TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA
 xcca9   ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305     ECDH 253   ChaCha20    256      TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256
 xcca8   ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305       ECDH 253   ChaCha20    256      TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256
 x9d     AES256-GCM-SHA384                 RSA        AESGCM      256      TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
 x3d     AES256-SHA256                     RSA        AES         256      TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA256
 x35     AES256-SHA                        RSA        AES         256      TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA
 xc02f   ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256       ECDH 253   AESGCM      128      TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
 xc02b   ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256     ECDH 253   AESGCM      128      TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
 xc027   ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256           ECDH 253   AES         128      TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256
 xc023   ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256         ECDH 253   AES         128      TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256
 x9c     AES128-GCM-SHA256                 RSA        AESGCM      128      TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
 x3c     AES128-SHA256                     RSA        AES         128      TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256
 x2f     AES128-SHA                        RSA        AES         128      TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA
TLS 1.3
 x1302   TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384            ECDH 253   AESGCM      256      TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
 x1303   TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256      ECDH 253   ChaCha20    256      TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256
 x1301   TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256            ECDH 253   AESGCM      128      TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256

 Done 2021-07-14 07:37:53 [  12s] -->> 140.82.121.4:443 (github.com) <<--

This tool attempts to make the output of the accepted ciphers a little more copy & paste'able.

installation

There are two options to run cipherchecks. Either by building the docker container, or by running it from source.

from source

You're going to need to install poetry as it is used to manage dependencies.

git clone https://github.com/sensepost/cipherchecks
cd cipherchecks
poetry install

using Docker

This is currently the easiest and most reliable way to install cipherchecks.

1. Install Docker and clone the Cipherchecks repo.
2. Open up a terminal in the cloned repo.
3. Build the Dockerfile with: docker build -t sensepost/cipherchecks .
4. Run Cipherchecks with the following command:

docker run --rm -it sensepost/cipherchecks

It's inconvenient to type that whole command each time you want to run Cipherchecks so I'd recommend making a script and adding it to your PATH or just adding an alias in your shell.

license

cipherchecks is licensed under a GNU General Public v3 License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://sensepost.com/contact/.