None of the ciphers specified are supported by the SSL engine

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Symptoms

You are unable to access JIRA via SSL after an upgrade, or change to your SSL connector.

The following appears in catalina.out:

1 2 Dec 05, 2014 7:01:57 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.net.jsse.JSSESocketFactory getEnableableCiphers WARNING: None of the ciphers specified are supported by the SSL engine : TLS_ECDH_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA

Cause

Your server.xml file has unsupported ciphers declared. Example faulty connector below:

1 2 <Connector SSLEnabled="true" acceptCount="100" clientAuth="false" connectionTimeout="20000" disableUploadTimeout="true" enableLookups="false" keystoreFile="C:\SSL\JIRA\alt_cert_915.pfx" keystorePass="epic2014" keystoreType="PKCS12" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192" maxSpareThreads="75" maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25" port="443" protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol" scheme="https" secure="true" sslProtocol="TLS" useBodyEncodingForURI="true" ciphers="TLS_ECDH_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA"/> </Service>

Resolution

  1. Shut down you JIRA instance.

  2. Locate the file server.xml which located on your $JIRA_installation_folder\conf.

  3. Remove the ciphers portion of the connector string.

  4. Restart JIRA.

Updated on April 8, 2025

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