AutoGen Definitions options;

prog-name     = gnutls-cli-debug;

prog-title    = "GnuTLS debug client";

prog-desc     = "Simple client program to check TLS server capabilities.";

short-usage   = "Usage: gnutls-cli-debug [options] hostname\n"

                "gnutls-cli --help for usage instructions.\n";

explain       = "";

detail        = "TLS debug client. It sets up multiple TLS connections to 

a server and queries its capabilities. It was created to assist in debugging 

GnuTLS, but it might be useful to extract a TLS server's capabilities.

It connects to a TLS server, performs tests and print the server's 

capabilities. If called with the `-V' parameter more checks will be performed.

Can be used to check for servers with special needs or bugs.";

reorder-args;

argument;

#define  VERBOSE_OPT 1

#include args-std.def

flag = {

    name      = port;

    value     = p;

    arg-type  = number;

    arg-range = "0 -> 65536";

    descrip   = "The port to connect to";

    doc      = "";

};

flag = {

    name      = app-proto;

    aliases   = starttls-proto;

};

flag = {

    name      = starttls-proto;

    arg-type  = string;

    descrip   = "The application protocol to be used to obtain the server's certificate (https, ftp, smtp, imap, ldap, xmpp, lmtp, pop3, nntp, sieve, postgres)";

    doc      = "Specify the application layer protocol for STARTTLS. If the protocol is supported, gnutls-cli will proceed to the TLS negotiation.";

};

doc-section = {

  ds-type   = 'SEE ALSO'; // or anything else

  ds-format = 'texi';      // or texi or mdoc format

  ds-text   = <<-_EOText_

gnutls-cli(1), gnutls-serv(1)

_EOText_;

};

doc-section = {

  ds-type = 'EXAMPLES';

  ds-format = 'texi';

  ds-text   = <<-_EOF_

@example

$ gnutls-cli-debug localhost

GnuTLS debug client 3.5.0

Checking localhost:443

                             for SSL 3.0 (RFC6101) support... yes

                        whether we need to disable TLS 1.2... no

                        whether we need to disable TLS 1.1... no

                        whether we need to disable TLS 1.0... no

                        whether %NO_EXTENSIONS is required... no

                               whether %COMPAT is required... no

                             for TLS 1.0 (RFC2246) support... yes

                             for TLS 1.1 (RFC4346) support... yes

                             for TLS 1.2 (RFC5246) support... yes

                                  fallback from TLS 1.6 to... TLS1.2

                        for RFC7507 inappropriate fallback... yes

                                     for HTTPS server name... Local

                               for certificate chain order... sorted

                  for safe renegotiation (RFC5746) support... yes

                     for Safe renegotiation support (SCSV)... no

                    for encrypt-then-MAC (RFC7366) support... no

                   for ext master secret (RFC7627) support... no

                           for heartbeat (RFC6520) support... no

                       for version rollback bug in RSA PMS... dunno

                  for version rollback bug in Client Hello... no

            whether the server ignores the RSA PMS version... yes

whether small records (512 bytes) are tolerated on handshake... yes

    whether cipher suites not in SSL 3.0 spec are accepted... yes

whether a bogus TLS record version in the client hello is accepted... yes

         whether the server understands TLS closure alerts... partially

            whether the server supports session resumption... yes

                      for anonymous authentication support... no

                      for ephemeral Diffie-Hellman support... no

                   for ephemeral EC Diffie-Hellman support... yes

                    ephemeral EC Diffie-Hellman group info... SECP256R1

                  for AES-128-GCM cipher (RFC5288) support... yes

                  for AES-128-CCM cipher (RFC6655) support... no

                for AES-128-CCM-8 cipher (RFC6655) support... no

                  for AES-128-CBC cipher (RFC3268) support... yes

             for CAMELLIA-128-GCM cipher (RFC6367) support... no

             for CAMELLIA-128-CBC cipher (RFC5932) support... no

                     for 3DES-CBC cipher (RFC2246) support... yes

                  for ARCFOUR 128 cipher (RFC2246) support... yes

                                       for MD5 MAC support... yes

                                      for SHA1 MAC support... yes

                                    for SHA256 MAC support... yes

                              for ZLIB compression support... no

                     for max record size (RFC6066) support... no

                for OCSP status response (RFC6066) support... no

              for OpenPGP authentication (RFC6091) support... no

@end example

You could also use the client to debug services with starttls capability.

@example

$ gnutls-cli-debug --starttls-proto smtp --port 25 localhost

@end example

_EOF_;

};