Ok so it turns out my SSL problems were just an incompatibility between a commercial implementation of Apache Ignite (through GridGain which the server uses) and the open source client version I was using. So much for 6 hours of frustration.

Ok so it turns out my SSL problems were just an incompatibility between a commercial implementation of Apache Ignite (through GridGain which the server uses) and the open source client version I was using. So much for 6 hours of frustration.