Re: Netscape Error while loading a signed applet

Charlie Lai (Charlie.Lai@Eng)
Thu, 19 Feb 1998 17:40:08 -0800 (PST)

From: Charlie.Lai@Eng (Charlie Lai)
Message-Id: <199802200140.RAA25519@angeles.eng.sun.com>
Subject: Re: Netscape Error while loading a signed applet
To: kkotak@netaccent.com
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 17:40:08 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <199802122253.OAA27212@java1.javasoft.com> from "kkotak@netaccent.com" at Feb 12, 98 10:58:22 pm

hi,

> I quick response to the folllowing problem will be greatly appreciated.
> I followed the steps from the javakey and jar documentation to create a
> trusted key and certificate for my company and used that to sign a jar
> file. every thing seemed to work fine thus far. But when we try to
> load that applet from our web server using NS 4.03, the following error
> messages show up in the Java Console.
>
>
> # Error: Invalid Hash of this JAR entry (-7882)
> # jar file: C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\jzipS44A.TMP
> # path: a.class
> # Error: Strange PKCS7 or RSA failure (-7881)
> # jar file: C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\jzipS44A.TMP
> # path: C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\jzipS44A.TMP
> # Error: loading of signatures has failed (-1)
> # jar file: C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\jzipS44A.TMP
> # path: /mail/

unfortunately, netscape does not support the signature
algorithms provided in SUN's JDK. to get your applet to work
with netscape, your best bet might be to try using activator:

http://java.sun.com/products/activator/

by using activator, you can replace netscape's JRE with SUN's
(version 1.1.5).

hope this helps,
charlie