If you come across the situation, that your java programs are not able to connect to ssl encrypted services, it might be most likely that the java cacerts keystore is empty or not uptodate. This might also be due to a bug in the java (or ca-certificate-java) package ((https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ca-certificates-java/+bug/1396760)). In order to fix the issue, you can run: sudo /var/lib/dpkg/info/ca-certificates-java.postinst configure