SSLHandshakeException: Received fatal alert: handshake_failure when setting ciphers on tomcat 7 server

Question

I have a Tomcat7 web-server which I tried to configure to accept secure connections by adding this connector to the server.xml file:

Answer 1

Well, I got this issue solved. It appears that by creating a self-signed certificate, using keytool, without providing -keyalg parameter makes the key-pair algorithm default to DSA. None of my ciphers suite included DSA algorithm. In that case, although the client and the server had intersection between their cipher-suites, neither was suitable for the key algoritm.

Adding -keyalg RSA when generating the keystore, solved the problem.