May be I am mistaken. I will give jtouch a try, thanks for the pointers...at this point I am grasping at straws :)
Thanks Aurelien! -----Original Message----- From: Aurélien Terrestris [mailto:aterrest...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2015 3:52 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: [OT] Tomcat 7.0.55/Jre 7u67: SEND TLSv1 ALERT: fatal, description = bad_record_mac "Another route to try the SSLv2Hello is to hack and recompile the JSSE. It's on my agenda to learn to do that if possible without rebuilding the whole JRE since for some obscure reason Oracle compiles JSSE with no debug info (and it is not included in the srcs distributed with the JRE) on it which makes debugging and inspecting local vars really hard..." No, it's not needed. I use jtouch.sourceforge.net and it's working well for trying SSLv2 hello's. From the network captures, I see that it's working. Not making advertisement for my software here, but,.. ;) 2015-10-13 23:20 GMT+02:00 George Stanchev <gstanc...@serena.com>: > Just as a side note, https.protocols is read by HttpsUrlConnection > which feeds it down through setEnabledProtocols() on the SSL socket. " > jdk.tls.client.protocols" is read directly by JSSE and does the same > thing... > > Another route to try the SSLv2Hello is to hack and recompile the JSSE. > It's on my agenda to learn to do that if possible without rebuilding > the whole JRE since for some obscure reason Oracle compiles JSSE with > no debug info (and it is not included in the srcs distributed with the > JRE) on it which makes debugging and inspecting local vars really hard... > > George > > -----Original Message----- > From: Aurélien Terrestris [mailto:aterrest...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2015 3:13 PM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: [OT] Tomcat 7.0.55/Jre 7u67: SEND TLSv1 ALERT: fatal, > description = bad_record_mac > > Maybe writing too fast.. > > "How do you force Java 8 to use SSLv2Hello?" > > As suggested before, by writing your own client OR by trying this hack. > From the JSSE Ref Guide 5, we know how to the customize the protocol ( > https://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/guide/security/jsse/JSSERefG > uide.html#InstallationAndCustomization > ) by setting a system property (https.protocol). Although they are no > more talking about this in the Ref Guide 8 ( > https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/security/SunPro > viders.html#SunJSSEProvider > ) I would give it a try as I know that the documentation is poorly written. > I suggested 10 years ago a change in the API doc about the enabled > protocols, and they didn't change anything although they said they would. > > > > "[1] states: " JDK 7-9 enables SSLv2Hello on the server side only. > (Will not send, but will accept SSLv2Hellos)"" > > I believe they mean "by default" as for the client side. Poorly > written, probably. > > > > 2015-10-13 22:55 GMT+02:00 Aurélien Terrestris <aterrest...@gmail.com>: > > > "How do you force Java 8 to use SSLv2Hello?" > > > > You can do this when writing your own Java client : calling the > > SSLSocketFactory to create an SSLSocket and configure with > > setEnabledProtocols ( > > https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/javax/net/ssl/SSLSocket.ht > > ml > > #setEnabledProtocols-java.lang.String:A- > > ) > > > > If you have some IIS server on internet which reproduces the > > problem, I'll try with JTouch ( jtouch.sourceforge.net ) or write a small > > client. > > > > > > > > > > 2015-10-13 22:22 GMT+02:00 Aurélien Terrestris <aterrest...@gmail.com>: > > > >> George, > >> > >> do you have any network capture that we can see ? > >> > >> 2015-10-13 22:10 GMT+02:00 George Stanchev <gstanc...@serena.com>: > >> > >>> >> It might be doable with OpenSSL s_client or something. Tough to > >>> replicate Java's behavior with a non-Java tool, though. > >>> > >>> I tried hard with the s_client but it can limit the protocols to > >>> one or another but it canot mix-and-match (hello 1.2, ok we will > >>> do 1.0) like Java > >>> 8 does. Either TLSv1 or TLSv1.2 but not both. Neither can curl > >>> which is also on top of openssl. > >>> > >>> Today, I spent 2.5 hours with a lemming from MS getting basically > >>> nowhere. I really need an engineer, but they give me those > >>> clueless support people that is wasting mine and their time. If > >>> someone knows how to escalate or a forum where MS developers hang > >>> out, I would > appreciate it. > >>> The support person I got today was clueless, went over a script > >>> and any attempt to explain a little more technical details led to > >>> total confusion and rebooting the script to beginning. Totally > >>> frustrating. At least with Oracle I got to talk with an actual > engineer... > >>> > >>> George > >>> > >>> > >>> -----Original Message----- > >>> From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] > >>> Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2015 2:03 PM > >>> To: Tomcat Users List > >>> Subject: Re: [OT] Tomcat 7.0.55/Jre 7u67: SEND TLSv1 ALERT: fatal, > >>> description = bad_record_mac > >>> > >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >>> Hash: SHA256 > >>> > >>> George, > >>> > >>> On 10/13/15 12:35 PM, George Stanchev wrote: > >>> > [1] states: " JDK 7-9 enables SSLv2Hello on the server side only. > >>> > (Will not send, but will accept SSLv2Hellos)" > >>> > >>> Interesting. This absolutely makes sense, though, since SSL should > >>> just die. :) > >>> > >>> > I've opened support case both MS and already there is a bug > >>> > filed with Oracle on this and really, to be absolutely certain > >>> > if the issue is in Java or SChannel, one would have to write a > >>> > non-Java client that that mimics the handshake messages send > >>> > from Java with something like OpenSSL or NSS or whatever and see > >>> > if the bug > replicates. > >>> > >>> It might be doable with OpenSSL s_client or something. Tough to > >>> replicate Java's behavior with a non-Java tool, though. > >>> > >>> > Writing a Java/Java server client could still leave some doubts > >>> > as one can argue the code reuse could mask the problem - it > >>> > works but the bug on the client side is hidden by the server > >>> > containing similar/same bug so the MACs check out... > >>> > > >>> > Unfortunately I don't have the time to invest in this more than > >>> > I already had. And if MS support engineers can pass it on to > >>> > someone from the windows core team may be we can have some movement > >>> > forward. > >>> > >>> Okay. 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