There is some general debugging information in:

http://download.java.net/jdk8/docs/technotes/guides/security/troubleshooting-security.html

but it doesn't contain information about debugging some of the specific Security components. For example, the JSSE:

http://download.java.net/jdk8/docs/technotes/guides/security/jsse/JSSERefGuide.html#Debug

Suggest adding any similar links to this doc page.


In addition, the debug option 'ocsp' is new in JDK 8. It may be used with the 'certpath' option for OCSP protocol tracing.
Suggest adding the following text to the description of the 'certpath' option.

    You can use the ocsp option with the certpath option for OCSP protocol tracing.
    A hexadecimal dump of the OCSP request and response bytes is displayed.