I purchased the GeoTrust QuickSSL Premium certificate from ssls.com and installed it on my web server which is running Linux Apache on CentOS 6.5.
Google Chrome on Windows 7 said
"The connection is encrypted using AES_256_CBC, with SHA1 for message authentication and ECDHE_RSA as the key exchange mechanism."
The screen shot is as follows.
The certificate path is as follows.
The first part of the certificate details is as follows.
I went to https://knowledge.geotrust.com/support/knowledge-base and it said "Certificate is installed correctly".
I tested my site on www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html. It rated my site with an A and said that my signature algorithm is SHA256withRSA. I went to shaaaaaaaaaaaaa.com said
Nice. example.com has a verifiable certificate chain signed with SHA-2.
I went to whynopadlock.com and everything checked out positively.
I set up the intermediate certificate as per the instructions given by GeoTrust.
I went to my web server and added the following to /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf
<VirtualHost _default_:443>
\# General setup for the virtual host, inherited from global configuration
DocumentRoot "/var/www"
ServerName www.clusterprism.com:443
\# Added to try to fix Google Chrome's "SHA1 for message authentication" nonsense
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /etc/httpd/RapidSsl/public.crt
SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/httpd/RapidSsl/intermediateNewName.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/httpd/RapidSsl/private.key
SSLCACertificateFile /etc/httpd/RapidSsl/ca-bundle.crt
# intermediate configuration, tweak to your needs
SSLProtocol all -SSLv2 -SSLv3
SSLCipherSuite !RC4:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-DSS-AES128-GCM-SHA256:kEDH+AESGCM:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:DHE-DSS-AES128-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256:DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:AES128-GCM-SHA256:AES256-GCM-SHA384:AES128-SHA256:AES256-SHA256:AES128-SHA:AES256-SHA:AES:CAMELLIA:DES-CBC3-SHA:!aNULL:!eNULL:!EXPORT:!DES:!RC4:!MD5:!PSK:!aECDH:!EDH-DSS-DES-CBC3-SHA:!EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:!KRB5-DES-CBC3-SHA
SSLHonorCipherOrder on
It made no difference