# Bug in javakey, JDK 1.1.6

Thorsten Goeller (tgoeller@metafinanz.de)
Mon, 27 Jul 1998 17:32:35 +0200

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    From: "Thorsten Goeller" <tgoeller@metafinanz.de>

    To: java-security@java.sun.com

    Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 17:32:35 +0200

    Subject: Bug in javakey, JDK 1.1.6

Dear ladies and gentlemen,

we tried to generate a key as it is described in the documentation "javakey
- The Security Tool".

After creating the identity with "javakey -cs thorsten true"
we wanted to generate a DSA key pair with 512 bit: "javakey -gk thorsten
DSA 512"

Every time we got an expection:

java.lang.NullPointerException
at sun.security.provider.Main.generateKeyPair<Main.java:1022>
at sun.security.provider.Main.generateCmd<Main.java:721>
at sun.security.provider.Main.run<Main.java:1394>
at sun.security.provider.Main.main<Main.java:1423>

This problem was only in JDK 1.1.6. When we tested to generate keypairs
with JDK 1.1.5, we had no problem.
We tested it on two computers. Evertytime the same problem.

Thorsten Goeller, Metafinanz, Germany <tgoeller@metafinanz.de>

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