Hi is it PHP'sd mysqli/mysqlnd or MySQL/MariaDB which is resposible that no ECDHE-ciphers are used? below ends in TLSv1 with DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA * MariaDB as well as PHP/Apache compiled with a ECDHE supporting OpenSSL, proven by https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/ as well as Postfix/Dovecot logs compiled against the same openssl-build * Fedora 19 with https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=319901#c108 home-made build $this->conn->ssl_set($this->ssl_key, $this->ssl_crt, $this->ssl_ca, NULL, 'ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:AES128-SHA');