SSL Mutual Authentication

SSL 3.0 and the means to perform mutual (client/server) certificate-based authentication is a J2SE 1.3 specification requirement. This security mechanism provides user authentication using HTTPS (HTTP over SSL).

The Sun Java System Web Server SSL mutual authentication mechanism (also known as HTTPS authentication) supports the following cipher suites:

SSL_RSA_EXPORT_WITH_RC4_40_MD5

SSL_RSA_EXPORT_WITH_RC2_CBC_40_MD5

SSL_RSA_EXPORT_WITH_DES40_CBC_SHA

SSL_DH_DSS_EXPORT_WITH_DES40_CBC_SHA

SSL_DH_RSA_EXPORT_WITH_DES40_CBC_SHA

SSL_DHE_DSS_EXPORT_WITH_DES40_CBC_SHA

SSL_DHE_RSA_EXPORT_WITH_DES40_CBC_SHA