if openssl works for othres i like to know a working my.cnf to make it work, i have added my ssql same way as used in dovecot / postfix, no ssl error in mysql, but openssl s_client -showcerts -connect 127.0.0.1:3306 says ssl23 fails, at best i see ssl3 tlsv1 fails, output is CONNECTED(00000003) --- no peer certificate available --- No client certificate CA names sent --- SSL handshake has read 7 bytes and written 308 bytes --- New, (NONE), Cipher is (NONE) Secure Renegotiation IS NOT supported Compression: NONE Expansion: NONE No ALPN negotiated SSL-Session: Protocol : TLSv1.2 Cipher : 0000 Session-ID: Session-ID-ctx: Master-Key: Key-Arg : None PSK identity: None PSK identity hint: None SRP username: None Start Time: 1460845475 Timeout : 300 (sec) Verify return code: 0 (ok) --- how to debug it more from here ?