Is TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA equivalent to SSL_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA

Question

I am working on configuring a Java client which its job is to make TLS connections to servers. I want to configure my client with these 3 ciphers:

TLS_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA
TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA
TLS_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5

In Java supported cipher suites, I found the same ciphers but with SSL at the beginning NOT TLS. The question, if I configured my client with:

SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA
SSL_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA
SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5

Are the two lists exactly the same and will be interpreted by the server same? I am worried if I configured the client with SSL_* ciphers this mean something different than TLS_* and may be some servers do not support SSL_*. How can I be sure?

Answer 1

Yes, they are the same. See Java Cryptography Architecture Standard Algorithm Name Documentation:

Some JSSE cipher suite names were defined before TLSv1.0 was finalized, and were therefore given the SSL_ prefix. The names mentioned in the TLS RFCs prefixed with TLS_ are functionally equivalent to the JSSE cipher suites prefixed with SSL_.