Rather than write an extensive reply to a comment on the originalentry as another comment, I'm doing it here.So, without further delay and in the traditional Usenet style:

Are you proposing every TLS secured service which does not providestrong ciphers shows up as if it were a cleartext service?

In my ideal world the short answer is yes; both bad ciphers and nociphers would show up as plain boring insecure connections. That weakciphers are somewhat harder to eavesdrop on than cleartext is notsomething that users

I'm currently engaged in a slow-moving effort to improve the performanceof Python's os.walk() filesystem walking function (I have a long-standing interest in it and recently wrote about optimizing filesystemwalking on Unix). As part of the work I've been benchmarking severalvariants of my code, and I stumbled over a performance anomaly wherethe normal os.walk() is often faster than what should be a slightlyoptimized version of it.

It's awfully easy to dismiss