Am Di., 17. Feb. 2026 um 16:02 Uhr schrieb Rémy Maucherat <[email protected]>:

> On Tue, Feb 17, 2026 at 3:39 PM Benny Prange
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Am Di., 17. Feb. 2026 um 15:14 Uhr schrieb Rémy Maucherat <
> [email protected]>:
> >
> > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2026 at 2:38 PM Benny Prange
> > > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi there,
> > > >
> > > > It seems that with the introduction of
> > > > https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=69800, some Java JSSE
> > > > Properties are ignored if passed as a Java Property.
> > > > In detail, I could verify that the properties
> > > "jdk.tls.ephemeralDHKeySize"
> > > > and "jdk.tls.namedGroups" are ignored, when the used Java version is
> 21
> > > or
> > > > 25. The properties are however used with Java 17. I tested this with
> > > Tomcat
> > > > 11.0.18.
> > > > Additionally, I tested Java 25 with Tomcat 11.0.11. This is the
> release
> > > > before the aforementioned bug, and in that version the properties are
> > > still
> > > > used.
> > > >
> > > > I guess that this is a bug, because in default catalina.sh file,
> > > > "-Djdk.tls.ephemeralDHKeySize=2048" is still set as a Java option,
> but
> > > this
> > > > has no effect starting with Tomcat 11.0.12 and Java 21 or newer. In
> this
> > > > scenario, Tomcat offers ffdhe2024 through ffdhe8192, whereas with
> 11.0.11
> > > > only ffdhe2024 is offered (as expected).
> > > >
> > > > It would be highly appreciated if my assumption is correct, that
> this is
> > > > indeed a bug, and if I should create a bug report for that.
> > >
> > For jdk.tls.namedGroups you should be using the new configuration. For
> > > jdk.tls.ephemeralDHKeySize I'm not sure, I don't think this is so
> > > useful anymore.
> > >
> > I forgot to mention this in my first post, but I'm actually using the
> > embedded tomcat in a spring boot application. I only tested it with a
> plain
> > tomcat to eliminate possible side effects from the spring boot
> > bootstrapping. As far as I can tell, I would have to create the connector
> > manually to set the namedGroups in the SSLHostConfig, because spring boot
> > does not provide a way to pass such a property by itself.
> > Also, the tomcat documentation or changelog does not mention that with
> the
> > 10.0.12 release it is no longer possible to use the JSSE properties.
> >
> > To me, this still seems like a bug that I would like to see resolved, so
> > that it is possible again to use the JSSE properties to configure the
> JSSE
> > provider.
>
> Ok, some of the other fields are defaulting to the relevant system
> property, so why not.
>
> Rémy
>
>
Happy to hear that, thanks a lot.

Best regards,
Benny

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