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Why did I get "SSLHandshakeE E SSLC0008E: Unable to initialize SSL connection. Unauthorized access was denied or security settings have expired" when I tried to login to NCM?

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I was trying to log in to NCM, but it failed with "Unable to establish communication with server: xxx" error.
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Upon checking the <JazzSM-Dir>/profile/logs/server1/SystemOut.log file, I found an error:
  [15/05/20 11:29:17:272 GMT+00:00] 000000c4 SSLHandshakeE E   SSLC0008E: Unable to initialize SSL connection.  Unauthorized access was denied or security settings have expired.  Exception is javax.net.ssl.SSLException: Unrecognized SSL message, plaintext connection?  	at com.ibm.jsse2.b.a(b.java:22)  	at com.ibm.jsse2.nc.a(nc.java:350)  	at com.ibm.jsse2.nc.unwrap(nc.java:306)  	at javax.net.ssl.SSLEngine.unwrap(SSLEngine.java:3)  	at com.ibm.ws.ssl.channel.impl.SSLConnectionLink.readyInbound(SSLConnectionLink.java:536)  	at com.ibm.ws.ssl.channel.impl.SSLConnectionLink.ready(SSLConnectionLink.java:296)

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