CF & MS-SQL SSL communication?

I'm looking to do SSL communication between our CFMX8 server and MS-SQL 2005 server using the built in SQL SSL encryption.

I wanted to do some testing prior to enabling the features to see it in a broken connection state so when I got it working I knew I was actually encrypting.  So I added ";EncryptionMethod=SSL" to the end of the connection string inside of the neo-datasource.xml file to force SSL connection from the CFMX8 side but I had not enabled SSL on the server side.  What I expected to see was an SSL connection failure message because EncryptionMethod=SSL means the system will require SSL from the JDBC side and fail if not available.  Well it connected right through with no issues...  I've found a couple articles online talking about this and at this point I'm not even sure if CFMX8 supports SSL JDBC communications or not...

I've done a bunch of research and I've come up with nothing so far, and I know from looking at the CFAdmin that it's not a checkbox in there.  Any assistance would be wonderful.