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evilhamsterman

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Registered: 2013-08-15

Posts: 11

javaws 'keystore was tampered with or password was incorrect'

I have been banging my head over this issue. Everytime I try to run a javaws app, such as for a virtual KVM for a server management interface, I download the .jnlp file and run it with javasw. It will then spit out an error 'Keystore was tampered with or password was incorrect' and have a text field to enter a password and a Cancel and OK button. Entering anything into the text field doesn't change anything and pressing either button will continue the process without affecting the app. But it is annoying to have it pop up 2 or 3 times everytime I open one.

This has been happening for a while on Java 1.7 and 1.8. I have cleared all Java folders from my user but it happens on multiple computers and even just after a fresh install so it isn't anything in the default. I have used both a custom Arch Linux install and Antergos. Anything I find on the Google machine points to things about reseting the keystore for stuff like Tomcat.

katsuki

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From: NY, USA

Registered: 2015-01-28

Posts: 26

Re: javaws 'keystore was tampered with or password was incorrect'

The problem you are experiencing is a change the JNLP format with Java 7; in Java 7 extra security features were added that require additional signing information for included dependencies. Also, you need to pull resources via https, not http. It looks like additional changes were made in 7u51: https://blogs.oracle.com/java-platform- … s_for_rias