The same behavior as described in the Debian bug 501487 is met on Gentoo. SSL connections which use CA Certificates end with Java SSL exception. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Version of icedtea: dev-java/icedtea6-bin-1.4.1
I believe this is the same issue as bug 278498
*** Bug 278498 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Fixed in icedtea6-1.6.1-r1 in java-overlay, icedtea6-bin will follow.
Fixed in icedtea6-bin-1.6.1, sorry for the wait.