Why does my PKCS12 keystore cause JBoss to fail to start cleanly?

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Issue

  • My PKCS12 keystore causes JBoss to throw the following exception during startup:
14:22:04,383 INFO  [Http11Protocol] Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-127.0.0.1-8080
14:22:04,383 INFO  [AjpProtocol] Initializing Coyote AJP/1.3 on ajp-127.0.0.1-8009
14:22:04,426 ERROR [JSSESocketFactory] Failed to load keystore type pkcs12 with path /home/dehort/dev/java/jboss-eap-5.1/jboss-as/server/default/conf/server.keystore due to DerInputStream.getLength(): lengthTag=109, too big.
java.io.IOException: DerInputStream.getLength(): lengthTag=109, too big.
        at sun.security.util.DerInputStream.getLength(DerInputStream.java:544)
        at sun.security.util.DerValue.init(DerValue.java:347)
        at sun.security.util.DerValue.<init>(DerValue.java:303)
        at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.pkcs12.PKCS12KeyStore.engineLoad(PKCS12KeyStore.java:1200)
        at java.security.KeyStore.load(KeyStore.java:1185)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.jsse.JSSESocketFactory.getStore(JSSESocketFactory.java:370)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.jsse.JSSESocketFactory.getKeystore(JSSESocketFactory.java:289)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.jsse.JSSESocketFactory.getKeyManagers(JSSESocketFactory.java:502)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.jsse.JSSESocketFactory.init(JSSESocketFactory.java:439)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.jsse.JSSESocketFactory.createSocket(JSSESocketFactory.java:142)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint.init(JIoEndpoint.java:502)
        at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol.init(Http11Protocol.java:175)

Environment

  • JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
    • 4.x
    • 5.x

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