I don't know what you did and how your certificate looks like, but this is what I did and which works with the current version of IO::Socket::SSL. 
# create a self-signed certificate
perl -MIO::Socket::SSL::Utils -e '
   my ($c,$k) = CERT_create(CA => 1, subject => { CN => q[foo.bar]}); 
   print PEM_cert2string($c).PEM_key2string($k)' \
   > self-signed.pem

# start a server with this certificate (default port 4433)
openssl s_server -cert self-signed.pem -key self-signed.pem &

# connect to this server
perl -Ilib -MIO::Socket::SSL=debug4 -e '
   my $cl = IO::Socket::SSL->new(
      PeerAddr => q[127.0.0.1:4433], 
      SSL_hostname => q[foo.bar], 
      SSL_ca_file => q[self-signed.pem]
   ) or die "$SSL_ERROR,$!";
   warn "SUCCESS cipher=".$cl->get_cipher();'

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This gives me (among all the debug output) "SUCCESS cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256" which means, that the SSL connection was successfully established. You might check with your certificate to make sure, that the problem is not the certificate itself.

In reply to Re: HTTPS connection with LWP and self-signed certificate by noxxi
in thread HTTPS connection with LWP and self-signed certificate by Anonymous Monk

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