On 16/04/2019 13:28, Coty Sutherland wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It appears that the IBM JDK (version 8) has dropped support for SSLv2Hello
> so when you startup tomcat with the IBM JDK you get a warning saying that
> the protocol is being skipped. OpenJDK seems to have dropped it in version
> 12 or 13 (I haven't tested, just noticed a user list thread about it) so I
> guess we should look at dropping support for SSLv2Hello whenever Tomcat's
> minimum JDK is one of those versions? Is there a document somewhere I can
> add this too so it doesn't get forgotten?
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Coty
> 

See
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/documentation/cve-2014-3566-2342133.html
basically java5/6 clients need SSLv2Hello.

I remember removing SSLv2Hello broke tests in 2004 and we had to put
SSLv2Hello back...

-- 
Cheers

Jean-Frederic

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