How to do it...

Let's perform the following steps:

1. We will look at the help manual to see the various options the tool has:

sslscan -h

The following screenshot shows the output of the preceding command:

1. To run the tool against a host, we type the following:

sslscan host.com:port

The following screenshot shows the output of the preceding command and we can see various types of information on the SSL protocol implemented on google.com:

As we can see from the above screenshot the tool has shown the protocol being used and how it has been covered. If a vulnerability exists on a domain, the tool will list it in the output as well.