This is a plugin for Minion that executes the sslscan tool to find issues with the SSL/TLS connfiguration of a host.

It currently only does the following checks:

• Check if the obsolete SSLv2 protocol is enabled on the server
• Check if the certificate date period is valid
• Check for RSA key length

More checks can be written based on the XML output of sslscan.

The sslscan tool is compiled against OpenSSL. Some distributions, like Ubuntu, disable SSLv2 in OpenSSL. This is generally a good idea but it also means that sslscan cannot detect SSLv2 anymore.

Therefore the plugin looks for a version of sslscan named minion-sslscan. This is a build that is statically linked against OpenSSL 1.0.1e with SSLv2 enabled. This is not ideal but a good interim solution.