Strange goings on with Java 8 on a customer box, and java security

"James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl-6/ELSmrcqeUu8xhjR5IN5AC/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.as400.java
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On two of our customer Tomcat installations, we are getting some strange 
problems that we had solved quite some time ago, but the solution isn't 
working.

On these particular boxes, we have Tomcat running under Java 8, and our 
webapp context is having trouble accessing a Google address-check web 
service, and returning this error message:
> Unable to find acceptable protocols. isFallback=false, modes=[ConnectionSpec(cipherSuites=[TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256, TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256, TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA, TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA, TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA, TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256, TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA, TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA], tlsVersions=[TLS_1_2, TLS_1_1, TLS_1_0], supportsTlsExtensions=true), ConnectionSpec(cipherSuites=[TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256, TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256, TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_
 SHA, TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA, TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA, TLS_RSA_WITH_AE
 S_128_GCM_SHA256, TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA, TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA], tlsVersions=[TLS_1_0], supportsTlsExtensions=true), ConnectionSpec()], supported protocols=[TLSv1]

In the past, we learned that this was happening because IBM was not 
accepting DESede. The solution was to add a "setenv.sh" file to Tomcat, 
with (pathnames altered to protect the innocent):
> JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -Djava.security.properties=/foo/tomcat/java.security"

and then add a security override file at /foo/tomcat/java.security 
containing:
> jdk.tls.disabledAlgorithms=SSLv3, RC4, DES, MD5withRSA, DH keySize < 1024, \
>     EC keySize < 224, anon, NULL  

(A much cruder solution was to alter the JVM's own java.security file 
with the above change.)

But for some reason, that isn't working in these particular 
installations, even thougha WRKJVMJOB shows that the setenv.sh file is 
getting picked up correctly.



Anybody got any ideas of what could be going wrong?

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JHHL
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