As I recall, if the cipher suite isn't recognised, it doesn't get added so I am guessing that ciphers="bf-cbc" is not the name of a support cipher suite. They usually look something like SSL_DHE_DSS_EXPORT_WITH_DES40_CBC_SHA

Mark

Zoltán FARKAS wrote:
  Hi All,

 I've got an 5.0.28 Tomcat installation functioning as a web serverver. I've 
commented out the SSL part to get HTTPS connections.
 Next step I've tried to set the used cipher to something else (by default 128 bit AES is 
used, I'd like to get something faster, bf-cbc). So I've added 
'ciphers="bf-cbc"' to the SSL connector part as written on 
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.0-doc/ssl-howto.html
 It looks like:
...
<Connector port="7433" maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25" maxSpareThreads="75"
               enableLookups="false" disableUploadTimeout="true"
               acceptCount="100" debug="99" scheme="https" secure="true"
               clientAuth="false" sslProtocol="SSL" ciphers="bf-cbc" 
keystorePass="portal" />
...
What I get is:
...
Nov 4, 2005 4:31:44 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol start
INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-7070
Nov 4, 2005 4:31:44 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol start
SEVERE: Error starting endpoint
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: CipherSuites may not be null
        at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.CipherSuiteList.<init>(DashoA12275)
        at 
com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLServerSocketImpl.setEnabledCipherSuites(DashoA12275)
        at 
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.jsse.JSSESocketFactory.initServerSocket(JSSESocketFactory.java:355)
        at 
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.jsse.JSSESocketFactory.createSocket(JSSESocketFactory.java:90)
        at 
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.initEndpoint(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:259)
        at 
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.startEndpoint(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:281)
        at 
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol.start(Http11Protocol.java:171)
        at 
org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.CoyoteConnector.start(CoyoteConnector.java:1527)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:489)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:2313)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:556)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at 
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at 
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:287)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:425)
Nov 4, 2005 4:31:44 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
SEVERE: Catalina.start: LifecycleException: Protocol handler start failed: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: CipherSuites may not be null
        at 
org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.CoyoteConnector.start(CoyoteConnector.java:1529)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:489)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:2313)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:556)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at 
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at 
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:287)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:425)
Nov 4, 2005 4:31:44 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start


Any ideas?
Thanks,

        Zoltan


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