Below are the steps to reproduce the issue,

1. Connect to a server through SSL (Self-signed certificates in my case) without any Cipher.

2. Connect to an Azure MySQL instance
through SSL. By default, any server instance created will have SSL enabled. The CA certificate for Azure MySQL instance can be downloaded from, here

3. Connecting to the Azure server with SSL gives 'Error No. 2026 Unknown SSL error'

4. Entering a random string as Cipher to the Azure instance connection gives the error 'Error No. 2026 SSL connection error: no cipher match'

5. Now connecting to a normal MySQL server with SSL (self-signed certificate) gives the error 'Error No. 2026 SSL connection error: no cipher match' though earlier it used to connect fine without Cipher.

6. On entering a valid Cipher for the normal MySQL server like 'DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA', the connection works fine.