Issues we are facing in fips mode

Sean Mullan sean.mullan at oracle.com
Wed Oct 8 12:07:33 UTC 2025


This does not appear to be a JDK issue. You are using JAR files from 
Bouncy Castle, so I think you should contact them for assistance.

Thanks,
Sean

On 10/8/25 3:26 AM, Isha K wrote:
> Hi
> 
>       This mail is to check with you on two issues we are facing.
> 
> 1. In our application for tls handshake, we are using tomcat 10.1.44 
> server along with JDK 17.0.3+7.
> 
> In our application, we observed that in non fips mode using tls1.2/ 
> tls1.3 protocol, session tickets are sent, but not in fips mode where we 
> are using bcfips-2.0.1 , bctls-fips-2.0.20, bcutil-fips-2.0.3 and 
> bcpkix-fips-2.0.8 jars.
> 
> Is it expected behaviour? I checked online but didn't find any 
> supporting statements.
> 
> 2. In non fips we had this property javax.net.debug in jvm.properties 
> which would give us details on the handshake in catalina.out file , but 
> in fips this property is not working.
> 
> To enable fips we are setting bcfips, bcjsse provider as 1st and 2nd 
> priority in java.security file.
> 
> Please let me know if any other details are required.
> 
> Your response will help us in narrowing down the issue and work on the 
> actual ones.
> 
> Waiting keenly for your response.
> 
> Regards
> Raveena



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