diff --git a/IO-Socket-SSL-1.997-use-system-default-cipher-list.patch b/IO-Socket-SSL-1.997-use-system-default-cipher-list.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d565729
--- /dev/null
+++ b/IO-Socket-SSL-1.997-use-system-default-cipher-list.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+--- lib/IO/Socket/SSL.pm
++++ lib/IO/Socket/SSL.pm
+@@ -89,9 +89,7 @@ my %DEFAULT_SSL_ARGS = (
+     SSL_verifycn_publicsuffix => undef,  # fallback default list verification
+     #SSL_verifycn_name => undef,   # use from PeerAddr/PeerHost - do not override in set_args_filter_hack 'use_defaults'
+     SSL_npn_protocols => undef,    # meaning depends whether on server or client side
+-    SSL_cipher_list =>
+-	'EECDH+AESGCM+ECDSA EECDH+AESGCM EECDH+ECDSA +AES256 EECDH EDH+AESGCM '.
+-	'EDH ALL +SHA +3DES +RC4 !LOW !EXP !eNULL !aNULL !DES !MD5 !PSK !SRP',
++    SSL_cipher_list => 'DEFAULT',
+ );
+ 
+ my %DEFAULT_SSL_CLIENT_ARGS = (
+@@ -101,42 +99,6 @@ my %DEFAULT_SSL_CLIENT_ARGS = (
+     SSL_ca_file => undef,
+     SSL_ca_path => undef,
+ 
+-    # older versions of F5 BIG-IP hang when getting SSL client hello >255 bytes
+-    # http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/13000/000/sol13037.html
+-    # http://guest:guest@rt.openssl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=2771
+-    # Debian works around this by disabling TLSv1_2 on the client side
+-    # Chrome and IE11 use TLSv1_2 but use only a few ciphers, so that packet
+-    # stays small enough
+-    # The following list is taken from IE11, except that we don't do RC4-MD5,
+-    # RC4-SHA is already bad enough. Also, we have a different sort order
+-    # compared to IE11, because we put ciphers supporting forward secrecy on top
+-
+-    SSL_cipher_list => join(" ",
+-	qw(
+-	    ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256
+-	    ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256
+-	    ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
+-	    ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384
+-	    ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA
+-	    ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA
+-	    ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256
+-	    ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA
+-	    ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA
+-	    DHE-DSS-AES128-SHA256
+-	    DHE-DSS-AES128-SHA
+-	    DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA256
+-	    DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA
+-	    AES128-SHA256
+-	    AES128-SHA
+-	    AES256-SHA256
+-	    AES256-SHA
+-	    EDH-DSS-DES-CBC3-SHA
+-	    DES-CBC3-SHA
+-	    RC4-SHA
+-	),
+-	# just to make sure, that we don't accidentely add bad ciphers above
+-	"!EXP !LOW !eNULL !aNULL !DES !MD5 !PSK !SRP"
+-    )
+ );
+ 
+ # set values inside _init to work with perlcc, RT#95452
+--- lib/IO/Socket/SSL.pod
++++ lib/IO/Socket/SSL.pod
+@@ -929,12 +929,8 @@ documentation (L<http://www.openssl.org/
+ for more details.
+ 
+ Unless you fail to contact your peer because of no shared ciphers it is
+-recommended to leave this option at the default setting. The default setting
+-prefers ciphers with forward secrecy, disables anonymous authentication and
+-disables known insecure ciphers like MD5, DES etc. This gives a grade A result
+-at the tests of SSL Labs.
+-To use the less secure OpenSSL builtin default (whatever this is) set
+-SSL_cipher_list to ''.
++recommended to leave this option at the default setting, which honors the
++system-wide DEFAULT cipher list.
+ 
+ =item SSL_honor_cipher_order
+ 
diff --git a/perl-IO-Socket-SSL.spec b/perl-IO-Socket-SSL.spec
index fceeb0b..ab32433 100644
--- a/perl-IO-Socket-SSL.spec
+++ b/perl-IO-Socket-SSL.spec
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 Name:		perl-IO-Socket-SSL
 Version:	1.997
-Release:	1%{?dist}
+Release:	2%{?dist}
 Summary:	Perl library for transparent SSL
 Group:		Development/Libraries
 License:	GPL+ or Artistic
 URL:		http://search.cpan.org/dist/IO-Socket-SSL/
 Source0:	http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/S/SU/SULLR/IO-Socket-SSL-%{version}.tar.gz
+Patch0:		IO-Socket-SSL-1.997-use-system-default-cipher-list.patch
 BuildRoot:	%{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(id -nu)
 BuildArch:	noarch
 BuildRequires:	openssl >= 0.9.8
@@ -61,6 +62,11 @@ mod_perl.
 %prep
 %setup -q -n IO-Socket-SSL-%{version}
 
+# Use system-wide default cipher list to support use of system-wide
+# crypto policy (#1076390, #1127577, CPAN RT#97816)
+# https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/CryptoPolicy
+%patch0
+
 %build
 echo n | perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
 make %{?_smp_mflags}
@@ -90,6 +96,11 @@ rm -rf %{buildroot}
 %{_mandir}/man3/IO::Socket::SSL::Utils.3*
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Aug  7 2014 Paul Howarth <paul@city-fan.org> - 1.997-2
+- Use system-wide default cipher list to support use of system-wide
+  crypto policy (#1076390, #1127577, CPAN RT#97816)
+  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/CryptoPolicy
+
 * Mon Jul 14 2014 Paul Howarth <paul@city-fan.org> - 1.997-1
 - Update to 1.997
   - Fix initialization and creation of OpenSSL-internals for perlcc