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I can't connect to google.com via HTTPS on any browser (Safari, Firefox or Chrome). All other sites (HTTPS or not) are fine. The error I get is ERR_CONNECTION_CLOSED in Chrome, Secure Connection Failed in Firefox. Both curl and OpenSSL via command line also fail:

$ curl https://www.google.com
curl: (35) Server aborted the SSL handshake

$ OpenSSL s_client -connect www.google.com:443
CONNECTED(00000003)
333:error:140790E5:SSL routines:SSL23_WRITE:ssl handshake failure:/SourceCache/OpenSSL098/OpenSSL098-52.8.4/src/ssl/s23_lib.c:185:

I have tried "Reset my default keychain" and a lot of other suggestions, but nothing has worked. I recently installed AVAST (which has worked fine for a couple of weeks) and I think the problem may have something to do with AVAST hijacking the SSL process - I have now uninstalled it but still have the same problem.

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    I am seeing the same problem, and have not installed AVAST or any similar application that might interfere with SSL. It only affects OSX Mavericks, not my Yosemite system, and the connections work fine in a Windows XP VM on the affected machine. Looks like this could be a bug on Google's side?
    – James Murty
    Commented Sep 25, 2015 at 13:08
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    10.9.5 here too.
    – akxlr
    Commented Sep 25, 2015 at 13:31
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    docs.google.com, account.google.com, support.google.com and youtube.com are also affected for me.
    – Daniel Beck ♦
    Commented Sep 25, 2015 at 13:36
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    @DanielBeck, James - mine is now working.
    – akxlr
    Commented Sep 26, 2015 at 3:58
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    This is also now working for us. I can only conclude this was a screwed up configuration from Google.
    – Doug
    Commented Sep 27, 2015 at 2:41

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This seems like it was a problem with Google as the remote end aborted the SSL handshake.

If it had been just your machine it cURL would have simply stated alert handshake failure if it was your machine.

While I know this is an answer to an old question, I hope it helps anyone else who runs into this problem.

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