Receiving exception during mutual authentication: SSLHandshakeException: Received fatal alert: bad_certificate

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Issue

  • Mutual Authentication is failing with the exception:
Caused by: javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: Received fatal alert: bad_certificate
         at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Alerts.getSSLException(Alerts.java:174)
         at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Alerts.getSSLException(Alerts.java:136)
         at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.recvAlert(SSLSocketImpl.java:1694)
         at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.readRecord(SSLSocketImpl.java:939)
         at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.waitForClose(SSLSocketImpl.java:1467)
         at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.HandshakeOutStream.flush(HandshakeOutStream.java:103)
         at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Handshaker.sendChangeCipherSpec(Handshaker.java:625)
         at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.ClientHandshaker.sendChangeCipherAndFinish(ClientHandshaker.java:907)
         at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.ClientHandshaker.serverHelloDone(ClientHandshaker.java:833)
Caused by: javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: Received fatal alert: handshake_failure

Environment

  • JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) on server with two-way SSL enabled.
  • Client accessing resource with SSL

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