Specification of SSLSocket#setEnabledCipherSuites says, ���Throws: IllegalArgumentException - when one or more of the ciphers named by the parameter is not supported, or when the parameter is null.��� However, with JDKb20, (refer [1] for code) SSLSocket#setEnabledCipherSuites (new String[] {������} ) // empty string Is accepted and not throwing IllegalArgumentException With JDKb15 (refer to [2] for code) SSLSocket#setEnabledCipherSuites(new String[]{������}) throws IllegalArgumentException [1] ========= JDK-11\20\jdk-11\bin\jshell | Welcome to JShell -- Version 11-ea | For an introduction type: /help intro jshell> import javax.net.ssl.* jshell> SSLContext ctx = SSLContext.getInstance("TLS") ctx ==> javax.net.ssl.SSLContext@7113b13f jshell> ctx.init(null,null,null) jshell> SSLSocket sslSocket = (SSLSocket)ctx.getSocketFactory().createSocket() sslSocket ==> Socket[unconnected] jshell> sslSocket.setEnabledCipherSuites(new String[]{""}) jshell> ========= [2] ========= JDK-11\15\jdk-11\bin\jshell | Welcome to JShell -- Version 11-ea | For an introduction type: /help intro jshell> import javax.net.ssl.* jshell> SSLContext ctx = SSLContext.getInstance("TLS") ctx ==> javax.net.ssl.SSLContext@587d1d39 jshell> ctx.init(null,null,null) jshell> SSLSocket sslSocket = (SSLSocket) ctx.getSocketFactory().createSocket() sslSocket ==> 73d4cc9e[SSL_NULL_WITH_NULL_NULL: Socket[unconnected]] jshell> sslSocket.setEnabledCipherSuites(new String[] {""} ) | Exception java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unsupported ciphersuite | at CipherSuite.valueOf (CipherSuite.java:283) | at CipherSuiteList.<init> (CipherSuiteList.java:82) | at SSLSocketImpl.setEnabledCipherSuites (SSLSocketImpl.java:2473) | at (#5:1) =========
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