SSL Handshake Failed - Java 1.8

Question

Just letting folks know about an issue I had that many seemed to have had after upgrading to Java 1.8. Not all of the solutions are the same hence posting how I resolved th

Answer 1

RC4 was effectively cracked - 14 years ago.

The Fluhrer, Mantin and Shamir (FMS) attack, published in their 2001 paper "Weaknesses in the Key Scheduling Algorithm of RC4", takes advantage of a weakness in the RC4 key scheduling algorithm to reconstruct the key from encrypted messages.

The problem isn't in Java 8.

The problem is your server is using RC4.