JWS hits start up error when setting ciphers for TLSv1.3 on an OpenSSLImplementation
Issue
- We've installed JWS Tomcat with its native libraries and have configured an HTTPS connector with TLSv1.3 and the
OpenSSLImplementation
:
<Connector port="8443" protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol"
sslImplementationName="org.apache.tomcat.util.net.openssl.OpenSSLImplementation"
maxThreads="150" SSLEnabled="true">
<SSLHostConfig protocols="TLSv1.3"
ciphers="TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384">
<Certificate certificateKeystoreFile="conf/application.keystore"
certificateKeystoreType="JKS"
certificateKeystorePassword="password"/>
</SSLHostConfig>
- If we set its cipher, the connector has a start up error. This doesn't occur if using TLSv1.2 with OpenSSL or TLSv1.3 with the JSSEImplementation:
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.openssl.OpenSSLContext.init Error initializing SSL context
java.lang.Exception: Unable to configure permitted SSL ciphers (error:1410D0B9:SSL routines:SSL_CTX_set_cipher_list:no cipher match)
at org.apache.tomcat.jni.SSLContext.setCipherSuite(Native Method)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.openssl.OpenSSLContext.init(OpenSSLContext.java:245)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.SSLUtilBase.createSSLContext(SSLUtilBase.java:246)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AbstractJsseEndpoint.createSSLContext(AbstractJsseEndpoint.java:97)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AbstractJsseEndpoint.initialiseSsl(AbstractJsseEndpoint.java:71)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint.bind(NioEndpoint.java:232)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AbstractEndpoint.bindWithCleanup(AbstractEndpoint.java:1208)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AbstractEndpoint.init(AbstractEndpoint.java:1221)
at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol.init(AbstractProtocol.java:603)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Protocol.init(AbstractHttp11Protocol.java:80)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.Connector.initInternal(Connector.java:1046)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.init(LifecycleBase.java:136)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.initInternal(StandardService.java:561)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.init(LifecycleBase.java:136)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.initInternal(StandardServer.java:1049)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.init(LifecycleBase.java:136)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:724)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:746)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:566)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.load(Bootstrap.java:305)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:475)
Environment
- JBoss Web Server (JWS) 5.x
- Tomcat 9.0.x
- Tomcat Native
- OpenSSL
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