[wtracz]

This was fun to find at the end of two days last week when a third-party system was trying to connect via SSL.

Java 8 is the first to allow above 1024-bit Diffie-Hellman parameter values.

[samch]

Java 8 was the first version to do so natively, but out of curiosity what was stopping you from using a library (like Bouncy Castle) to handle encryption in earlier versions of Java?

[kerio]

And it still doesn't allow >2048-bit parameters