Error 'Failed to generate RSA Key' when generating an RSA key pair
Originally Published: 2011-05-09
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Issue
at com.rsa.keymanager.core.key.generate.DefaultRSAKeyGenerator.generateKeyWithSize(DefaultRSAKeyGenerator.java:101)
at com.rsa.keymanager.core.key.generate.DefaultRSAKeyGenerator.generateAndCheckFailure(DefaultRSAKeyGenerator.java:65)
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au.net.netstorm.boost.primordial.PrimordialException: Failed to generate RSA Key
at com.rsa.keymanager.core.key.generate.DefaultRSAKeyGenerator.generateKeyWithSize(DefaultRSAKeyGenerator.java:101)
at com.rsa.keymanager.core.key.generate.DefaultRSAKeyGenerator.generateAndCheckFailure(DefaultRSAKeyGenerator.java:65)
[...]
Logs when the server starts shows twice the following initialization log (twice in the same 5 seconds interval):
02 May 2011 16:45:20,383 INFO Thread-1 - Client : Internal, -------------------------------------
02 May 2011 16:45:20,383 INFO Thread-1 - Client : Internal, Current Providers
02 May 2011 16:45:20,383 INFO Thread-1 - Client : Internal, -------------------------------------
[...]
02 May 2011 16:45:21,476 INFO Thread-1 - Client : Internal, -------------------------------------
02 May 2011 16:45:21,476 INFO Thread-1 - Client : Internal, Final Providers
02 May 2011 16:45:21,476 INFO Thread-1 - Client : Internal, -------------------------------------
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Resolution
The problem was that previous version of RKM server war file was still in Tomcat's webapps folder. This is not allowed and lead to inconsistent and unpredictable behavior. To fix the issue, do the following:
1. Stop Tomcat
2. Go in TOMCAT/webapps folder and delete any un-needed .war file. Keep only KMS.war of the version needed
3. Delete all KMS-like folder both in TOMCAT/webapps/ and TOMCAT/work/Catalina/localhost
4. Restart Tomcat
Notes
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