BUG #1321: SSL error: sslv3 alert handshake failure

The following bug has been logged online:

Bug reference:      1321
Logged by:          T.J. Ferraro

Email address:      tjtoocool@phreaker.net

PostgreSQL version: 8.0 Beta

Operating system:   Mandrake Linux 10

Description:        SSL error: sslv3 alert handshake failure

Details: 

After installing 8.0.0beta4 (previously tried with beta3,2,etc) on a linux 
system with a working 7.4.x installation I was unable to connect with ssl. 
Tried compiling with OpenSSL 0.9.7d/e. I used certificates created with 
OpenSSL 0.9.7d/e that both worked fine with 7.4.x but apparently not so with 
8.0.0. Server starts fine, but when I attempt to connect to the server with 
latest pgadmin or psql (8.0.0beta4 both on the pgfoundry binary for windows 
and a compiled version on Mandrake Linux) the error is always the same. The 
error message returned to the client is "SSL error: sslv3 alert handshake 
failure". The log reports: "could not accept SSL connection: 1".