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If you use Tomcat to run Java apps such as Atlassian Confluence (the page you're looking at now), JIRA, etc, via HTTPS, you might have noticed that your app will not support any 256 bit ciphers, however it will support 128 and 168 bit ciphers, as well as the lame 40 and 56 bit ciphers. The sslscan tool confirms this, and reports:
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Accepted SSLv3 128 bits DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA Accepted SSLv3 128 bits AES128-SHA Accepted SSLv3 168 bits EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA Accepted SSLv3 56 bits EDH-RSA-DES-CBC-SHA Accepted SSLv3 40 bits EXP-EDH-RSA-DES-CBC-SHA Accepted SSLv3 168 bits DES-CBC3-SHA Accepted SSLv3 56 bits DES-CBC-SHA Accepted SSLv3 40 bits EXP-DES-CBC-SHA Accepted SSLv3 128 bits RC4-SHA Accepted SSLv3 128 bits RC4-MD5 Accepted SSLv3 40 bits EXP-RC4-MD5 Accepted TLSv1 128 bits DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA Accepted TLSv1 128 bits AES128-SHA Accepted TLSv1 168 bits EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA Accepted TLSv1 56 bits EDH-RSA-DES-CBC-SHA Accepted TLSv1 40 bits EXP-EDH-RSA-DES-CBC-SHA Accepted TLSv1 168 bits DES-CBC3-SHA Accepted TLSv1 56 bits DES-CBC-SHA Accepted TLSv1 40 bits EXP-DES-CBC-SHA Accepted TLSv1 128 bits RC4-SHA Accepted TLSv1 128 bits RC4-MD5 Accepted TLSv1 40 bits EXP-RC4-MD5 |
What is So what's the problem here?
The issue here lies in the so-called policy files of JDK6. According to Sun:
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