I am trying to instantiate a simple SSL client socket(connection to an
SSH port on a linux host (port 22) but get the below exception :
"javax.net.ssl.SSLException: Unrecognized SSL message, plaintext
connection?".

I am using the default factory (javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory) to
create the SSLSocket (javax.net.ssl.SSLSocket). I am not enabling any
specific cipher suite. I tried enabling each of the protocols
(SSLv2Hello, SSLv3, TLSv1) separately - but still the same problem.

I put some debug print statements to print the enabled cipher suites
and I notice the most common cipher suites are indeed enabled :

SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5
SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA
TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA
TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA
TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA
SSL_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA
SSL_DHE_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA
SSL_DHE_DSS_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA
SSL_RSA_WITH_DES_CBC_SHA
SSL_DHE_RSA_WITH_DES_CBC_SHA
SSL_DHE_DSS_WITH_DES_CBC_SHA
SSL_RSA_EXPORT_WITH_RC4_40_MD5
SSL_RSA_EXPORT_WITH_DES40_CBC_SHA
SSL_DHE_RSA_EXPORT_WITH_DES40_CBC_SHA
SSL_DHE_DSS_EXPORT_WITH_DES40_CBC_SHA

Any help is appreciated.

"Ranga" <rthittai@telcordia.com> said:
>I am trying to instantiate a simple SSL client socket(connection to an
>SSH port on a linux host (port 22) but get the below exception :
>"javax.net.ssl.SSLException: Unrecognized SSL message, plaintext
>connection?".

Ok. SSH is not SSL, and vice versa. There are some common cryptographic
algorithms used in both, but the actual protocols are not interoperable.
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Juha - thanks.

But I believe there is an FTP service running on this port (22) on this
linux host that I am trying to connect to. Wouldn't that be sftp?
If it is sftp, then should I not be able to connect to it using an SSL
socket?

Or is an FTP service running on SSH not equivaltent to the ubiquitous
"sftp"?

-Ranga


Juha Laiho wrote:
> "Ranga" <rthittai@telcordia.com> said:
> >I am trying to instantiate a simple SSL client socket(connection to
an
> >SSH port on a linux host (port 22) but get the below exception :
> >"javax.net.ssl.SSLException: Unrecognized SSL message, plaintext
> >connection?".
>
> Ok. SSH is not SSL, and vice versa. There are some common
cryptographic
> algorithms used in both, but the actual protocols are not
interoperable.
> --
> Wolf  a.k.a.  Juha Laiho     Espoo, Finland
> (GC 3.0) GIT d- s+: a C++ ULSH++++$ P++@ L+++ E- W+$@ N++ !K w !O !M
V
>          PS(+) PE Y+ PGP(+) t- 5 !X R !tv b+ !DI D G e+ h---- r+++
y++++
> "...cancel my subscription to the resurrection!" (Jim Morrison)

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Ranga wrote:

> Juha - thanks.
> 
> But I believe there is an FTP service running on this port (22) on
> this linux host that I am trying to connect to. Wouldn't that be
> sftp? If it is sftp, then should I not be able to connect to it
> using an SSL socket?
> 
> Or is an FTP service running on SSH not equivaltent to the
> ubiquitous "sftp"?
> 
> -Ranga
> 

Hi,
What I always call "sftp" is actually a variant of FTP operating over
SSHv2, which on my systems is invoked with the sftp command (or scp,
depending on what you're trying to do). However, I'm aware that there
is also something else called "ftps" which is FTP over SSL or TLS.
They're not the same thing, since SSL!=SSH. However, on the flip
side, there are Java libraries out there that do SSH, although I've
never actually used them, so I can't recommend one.

Chris
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