I am rely new to Hermes and just installed it. I used the hermes2_installer_20100121.jar executable file.
After installing I login to admin panel and click Ebms Plugin( 2nd from left panel named 'Module')
2013-05-15 11:30:49 [-startStop-1] <INFO > <Plugin registry (C:\Program Files\hermes2\plugins) initialized successfully.>
2013-05-15 11:30:50 [-startStop-1] <ERROR> <Error in activating plugin: hk.hku.cecid.ebms>
hk.hku.cecid.piazza.commons.spa.PluginException: Error in processing activation by handler: hk.hku.cecid.ebms.spa.EbmsProcessor
by hk.hku.cecid.piazza.commons.module.ModuleException: Unable to initialize module group 'Ebms'
by hk.hku.cecid.piazza.commons.module.ModuleException: Unable to load modules
by hk.hku.cecid.piazza.commons.module.ModuleException: Unable to initialize component 'Key Store Manager for Digital Signature'
by hk.hku.cecid.piazza.commons.security.KeyStoreManagementException: Unable to initialize the key store
by java.io.IOException: exception decrypting data - java.security.InvalidKeyException: Illegal key size
.....
at org.bouncycastle.jce.provider.JDKPKCS12KeyStore.engineLoad(Unknown Source)
at java.security.KeyStore.load(Unknown Source)
at hk.hku.cecid.piazza.commons.security.KeyStoreComponent.load(KeyStoreComponent.java:169)
... 30 more
2013-05-15 11:30:50 [-startStop-1] <DEBUG> <Component 'Corvus Main Loggger' in module 'Corvus Main System Module' initialized successfully.>