NAME

CURLOPT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST - ciphers to use for TLS

SYNOPSIS

#include <curl/curl.h>
CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST, char *list);

DESCRIPTION

Pass a char pointer, pointing to a null-terminated string holding the list of ciphers to use for the SSL connection. The list must be syntactically correct, it consists of one or more cipher strings separated by colons. Commas or spaces are also acceptable separators but colons are normally used, !, - and + can be used as operators. For OpenSSL and GnuTLS valid examples of cipher lists include RC4-SHA, SHA1+DES, TLSv1 and DEFAULT. The default list is normally set when you compile OpenSSL. For wolfSSL, valid examples of cipher lists include ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA, AES256-SHA:AES256-SHA256, etc. For mbedTLS and BearSSL, valid examples of cipher lists include ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256, or when using IANA names TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256:TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256, etc. With mbedTLS and BearSSL you do not add/remove ciphers. If one uses this option then all known ciphers are disabled and only those passed in are enabled. For Schannel, you can use this option to set algorithms but not specific cipher suites. Refer to the ciphers lists document for algorithms. Find more details about cipher lists on this URL:
https://curl.se/docs/ssl-ciphers.html The application does not have to keep the string around after setting this option.

DEFAULT

NULL, use built-in list

PROTOCOLS

This functionality affects all TLS based protocols: HTTPS, FTPS, IMAPS, POP3S, SMTPS etc. This option works only with the following TLS backends: BearSSL, GnuTLS, OpenSSL, Schannel, Secure Transport, mbedTLS and wolfSSL

EXAMPLE

int main(void)
{
CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {
CURLcode res;
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com/");
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST, "TLSv1");
res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
}
}

HISTORY

Added in 7.9, in 7.83.0 for BearSSL, in 8.8.0 for mbedTLS

AVAILABILITY

Added in curl 7.9

RETURN VALUE

Returns CURLE_OK if TLS is supported, CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not, or CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY if there was insufficient heap space.

SEE ALSO

CURLOPT_PROXY_SSL_CIPHER_LIST(3), CURLOPT_PROXY_TLS13_CIPHERS(3), CURLOPT_SSLVERSION(3), CURLOPT_TLS13_CIPHERS(3), CURLOPT_USE_SSL(3)