SSL Handshake fails after clienthello

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EDIT: I\'ll leave this as a good example of debugging SSL.

Final analysis: We had a networking issue in which one of our routers was misconfigured for a totally dif

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Well, I had a similar problem. SSL handshake terminated with error right after ClientHello. It turned out the server required stronger ciphers than I had installed so I had to install the Java Cryptography Extension (JCE) (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jce8-download-2133166.html).

More interestingly, we had the very same problem on a server and we had the jars for JCE there but some older version so it suffered the same problem. Replacing them with the newest version solved the issue.

BTW, do you know how to get required server ciphers? Or better compare the client and server ciphers? So one would immediately see the mismatch.