Firefox cannot make a secure connection to HTTPS website

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Issue

  • We get the following error when trying to connect to a secure website with Firefox:

    An error occurred during a connection to example.com. Cannot communicate securely with peer: no common encryption algorithm(s). Error code: SSL_ERROR_NO_CYPHER_OVERLAP

  • How do we deal with an SSL_ERROR_NO_CYPHER_OVERLAP error in Firefox?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Mozilla Firefox

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