curl handshake failure ubuntu 12.04LTS

i cannot open certain site's with curl SSL see below

curl -verbosen https://d18kq98amm3n6k.cloudfront.net
* About to connect() to d18kq98amm3n6k.cloudfront.net port 443 (#0)
* Trying 205.251.205.4... connected
* successfully set certificate verify locations:
* CAfile: none
  CApath: /etc/ssl/certs
* SSLv3, TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
* SSLv3, TLS alert, Server hello (2):
* error:14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure
* Closing connection #0
curl: (35) error:14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure

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openssl version
OpenSSL 1.0.1 14 Mar 2012

curl --version
curl 7.22.0 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.22.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1 zlib/1.2.3.4 libidn/1.23 librtmp/2.3
Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps ldap pop3 pop3s rtmp rtsp smtp smtps telnet tftp
Features: GSS-Negotiate IDN IPv6 Largefile NTLM NTLM_WB SSL libz TLS-SRP

os: ubuntu 12.04LTS