[java] javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: Received fatal alert: handshake_failure

I am posting this question after trying many options from two days. Below are the options I tried.

  1. Disable ssl certificate validation
  2. By downloading crt from browser and converting to .jks and importing keystore.

Still I am getting this issue, any help very much appreciated in advance.

javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: Received fatal alert: handshake_failure
at sun.security.ssl.Alerts.getSSLException(Alerts.java:192)
at sun.security.ssl.Alerts.getSSLException(Alerts.java:154)
at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.recvAlert(SSLSocketImpl.java:1943)
at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.readRecord(SSLSocketImpl.java:1059)
at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.performInitialHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1294)
at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1321)
at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1305)
at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsClient.afterConnect(HttpsClient.java:523)
at sun.net.www.protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.connect(AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.java:185)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1296)
at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getInputStream(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:254)
at com.honeywell.sensibo.api.NewMain.main(NewMain.java:73)

This question is related to java jakarta-ee ssl-certificate

The answer is


Issue resolved.!!! Below are the solutions.

For Java 6: Add below jars into {JAVA_HOME}/jre/lib/ext. 1. bcprov-ext-jdk15on-154.jar 2. bcprov-jdk15on-154.jar

Add property into {JAVA_HOME}/jre/lib/security/java.security security.provider.1=org.bouncycastle.jce.provider.BouncyCastleProvider

Java 7:download jar from below link and add to {JAVA_HOME}/jre/lib/security http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jce-7-download-432124.html

Java 8:download jar from below link and add to {JAVA_HOME}/jre/lib/security http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jce8-download-2133166.html

Issue is that it is failed to decrypt 256 bits of encryption.


I am getting similar errors recently because recent JDKs (and browsers, and the Linux TLS stack, etc.) refuse to communicate with some servers in my customer's corporate network. The reason of this is that some servers in this network still have SHA-1 certificates.

Please see: https://www.entrust.com/understanding-sha-1-vulnerabilities-ssl-longer-secure/ https://blog.qualys.com/ssllabs/2014/09/09/sha1-deprecation-what-you-need-to-know

If this would be your current case (recent JDK vs deprecated certificate encription) then your best move is to update your network to the proper encription technology.

In case that you should provide a temporal solution for that, please see another answers to have an idea about how to make your JDK trust or distrust certain encription algorithms:

How to force java server to accept only tls 1.2 and reject tls 1.0 and tls 1.1 connections

Anyway I insist that, in case that I have guessed properly your problem, this is not a good solution to the problem and that your network admin should consider removing these deprecated certificates and get a new one.


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