DO NOT REPLY [Bug 40826] - Private keys must be instance of RSAPrivate or have PKCS#8 encoding

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------- Additional Comments From sean.mullan@sun.com  2006-10-27 07:46 -------
(In reply to comment #0)
> Hello
> 
> I am having a problem. My application is an applet that generate a xml and sign
> it with PrivateKey from SmartCard. 
> 
> The first time, it works fine! however when i try to sign again (second time), i
> get this exception: 
> 
> java.security.InvalidKeyException: Private keys must be instance of
> RSAPrivate(Crt)Key or have PKCS#8 encoding

This exception indicates that you are trying to use the key that is 
stored on the smart card with a software based crypto provider. It won't work. 
See http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/security/p11guide.html#DelayedSelect
for some more information about that.

However, we need to figure out why you are getting that exception. 

> The exception occurs when calling the method: DOMSignContext dsc = new
> DOMSignContext(pk, doc.getDocumentElement()); This method is part of the
> following code:
> 
> Does any body know what could i do to solve this problem ?

Can you attach the full exception stack trace?

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