How To Install sslscan on Fedora 34

sslscan is Security assessment tool for SSL/TLS

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sslscan on Fedora 34.

What is sslscan

SSLScan queries SSL services, such as HTTPS, in order to determine the ciphers that are supported. SSLScan is designed to be easy, lean and fast. The output includes preferred ciphers of the SSL service, the certificate and is in text and XML formats.

We can use yum or dnf to install sslscan on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sslscan.

Install sslscan on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install sslscan using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install sslscan

Install sslscan on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install sslscan using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sslscan

How To Uninstall sslscan on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the sslscan package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove sslscan

sslscan Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/sslscan
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f8
/usr/lib/.build-id/f8/9ab097fc96fe1401cdc88e165fe6112495058a
/usr/share/doc/sslscan
/usr/share/doc/sslscan/Changelog
/usr/share/doc/sslscan/README.md
/usr/share/doc/sslscan/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/sslscan
/usr/share/licenses/sslscan/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/sslscan.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install sslscan on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.