Não acredito que você possa bisbilhotar o tráfego quando o handshake SSL entre o servidor e o cliente for concluído. Você provavelmente precisará verificar o servidor para ver se ele está oferecendo cifras fracas. Talvez "sslscan"?
Eu sei que há um pacote do Ubuntu disponível para isso.
Isso mostrará o pacote de criptografia oferecido por um servidor.
Então, analisando o GMail com sslscan, recebo:
$ sslscan --no-failed mail.google.com:443
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Version 1.8.2
http://www.titania.co.uk
Copyright Ian Ventura-Whiting 2009
Testing SSL server mail.google.com on port 443
Supported Server Cipher(s):
Accepted SSLv3 256 bits AES256-SHA
Accepted SSLv3 128 bits AES128-SHA
Accepted SSLv3 168 bits DES-CBC3-SHA
Accepted SSLv3 128 bits RC4-SHA
Accepted SSLv3 128 bits RC4-MD5
Accepted TLSv1 256 bits AES256-SHA
Accepted TLSv1 128 bits AES128-SHA
Accepted TLSv1 168 bits DES-CBC3-SHA
Accepted TLSv1 128 bits RC4-SHA
Accepted TLSv1 128 bits RC4-MD5
Prefered Server Cipher(s):
SSLv3 128 bits RC4-SHA
TLSv1 128 bits RC4-SHA
SSL Certificate:
Version: 2
Serial Number: 4294967295
Signature Algorithm: sha1WithRSAEncryption
Issuer: /C=ZA/O=Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd./CN=Thawte SGC CA
Not valid before: Oct 26 00:00:00 2011 GMT
Not valid after: Sep 30 23:59:59 2013 GMT
Subject: /C=US/ST=California/L=Mountain View/O=Google Inc/CN=mail.google.com
Public Key Algorithm: rsaEncryption
RSA Public Key: (1024 bit)
Modulus (1024 bit):
00:af:39:15:98:68:e4:92:fe:4f:4f:f1:bb:ff:0d:
2e:b0:fe:25:aa:bd:68:04:67:27:ea:6c:43:4c:a7:
6d:cb:c8:8f:7e:81:ee:87:26:25:10:12:54:33:9e:
aa:3d:9b:8f:8e:92:b3:4b:01:e3:f9:4a:29:c3:0f:
fd:ac:b7:d3:4c:97:29:3f:69:55:cf:70:83:04:af:
2e:04:6e:74:d6:0f:17:09:fe:9e:20:24:24:e3:c7:
68:9c:ac:11:bd:92:e4:b2:1b:09:f2:02:32:bb:55:
1b:2d:16:5f:30:12:23:e2:4c:4a:8d:c2:da:3f:e1:
b8:bf:f7:3a:b1:86:be:f0:c5
Exponent: 65537 (0x10001)
X509v3 Extensions:
X509v3 Basic Constraints: critical
CA:FALSE
X509v3 CRL Distribution Points:
URI:http://crl.thawte.com/ThawteSGCCA.crl
X509v3 Extended Key Usage:
TLS Web Server Authentication, TLS Web Client Authentication, Netscape Server Gated Crypto
Authority Information Access:
OCSP - URI:http://ocsp.thawte.com
CA Issuers - URI:http://www.thawte.com/repository/Thawte_SGC_CA.crt
Verify Certificate:
unable to get local issuer certificate
EDITAR :
Ah, olhe esta página: link
Então, você pode usar essa ferramenta para ver o handshake e qual é a cifra acordada.