19-Feb-2021 01:12
Hi to F5 DevCentral,
The SSL certificate (configured in our F5 load balancer) of one of our F5-hosted websites will be expiring soon.
After I configured a new SSL certificate in F5 for that website, browsing the website (using Google Chrome) displays the following error message:
This site can't provide a secure connection.
<the website's domain name> uses an unsupported protocol.
ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH
Does this mean that something is wrong with the new SSL certificate?
Regards,
Michael Feliciano
19-Feb-2021 02:59
Hi,
This message indicates that the SSL version or the Cipher list supported by the F5 and its peer (the client) doesn't match.
You should do a tcpdump on the client or on the F5 system to check the ssl handshake. You may see that there is no matching ciphers between the browser and the VS.
regards
12-Mar-2021 06:22
Thanks for your feedback, Satoshino. 🙂
21-Feb-2021 06:55
If there are any doubts on the procedure of how to renew existing SSL certificates and keys, there's a video that got you covered: https://youtu.be/WU3C8W25vvE
12-Mar-2021 06:22
Thanks for sharing the SSL certificate renewal guide, Daniel. 🙂
12-Mar-2021 06:23
Yes, thanks for following up, boneyard. 🙂
12-Mar-2021 06:24
It turned out that the F5-hosted website had some existing configurations in a Palo Alto firewall. (i.e. an SSL certificate, and a decryption rule)
Browsing the website finally worked, after I used its new SSL certificate to update the relevant configurations in both the Palo Alto firewall and the F5 load balancer.
28-Jun-2022 23:01
This issue usually involves a problem with your web browser or your site’s SSL certificate. The browser’s telling you that because it’s trying to tell you there’s a problem with the certificate the website is using for HTTPS, so “this site can't provide a secure connection”. In all cases the end-to-end encryption is still going to work just because HTTPS can’t function without it. There is no definite guide for managing this error.
Two possible options to get rid of this issue
Steps for Chrome :
This error is because of the following problems: