Comment 8 for bug 986147

Colin: I think I understand now much better; thanks. The upgrade to 1.0.1 increased the number of ciphers, which in turn broke communication with bad servers (of which there may be an important number). What a thorny little knot of a problem. Short of fixing these bad servers (which might be a hard and many-year problem), perhaps the only real solution is to have our clients sort the ciphers by security preference, and then attempt multiple connections. Obviously that's not a quick fix!

I see 1.0.1-4ubuntu5 has hit proposed, so I'll give that a try right now.