Generation of DSA key pair failed

[johanna....@gmail.com]

Hi

When trying to generate a new DSA key pair I got the following message:

Während "New Key Pair Job" ist ein interner Fehler aufgetreten.

Obviously the reason was a stack overflow:

java.lang.StackOverflowError

at sun.reflect.GeneratedConstructorAccessor19.newInstance(Unknown Source)

at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)

at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source)

at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Unknown Source)

at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Unknown Source)

at java.security.Provider$Service.newInstance(Unknown Source)

at sun.security.jca.GetInstance.getInstance(Unknown Source)

at sun.security.jca.GetInstance.getInstance(Unknown Source)

at java.security.SecureRandom.getInstance(Unknown Source)

at java.security.SecureRandom.getDefaultPRNG(Unknown Source)

at java.security.SecureRandom.<init>(Unknown Source)

at de.flexiprovider.ec.ECPRNG.generateSeed(ECPRNG.java:218)

at de.flexiprovider.api.SecureRandom.engineGenerateSeed(SecureRandom.java:9)

at java.security.SecureRandom.generateSeed(Unknown Source)

at de.flexiprovider.ec.ECPRNG.generateSeed(ECPRNG.java:219)

at de.flexiprovider.api.SecureRandom.engineGenerateSeed(SecureRandom.java:9)

at java.security.SecureRandom.generateSeed(Unknown Source)

at de.flexiprovider.ec.ECPRNG.generateSeed(ECPRNG.java:219)

... the last three lines repeating almost endlessly (all in all about 2000 lines)

At least one other (non-DSA) key pair can be generated without problems.

I'm using the latest stable release
Version: 1.0.0 (Release Candidate 6)
Build id: M20120715

What am I doing wrong?

[Dominik Schadow]

Hi Johanna,

This is a known bug in release you are using. In case you need a fast solution you can use our latest weekly build at http://www.cryptool.org/en/jct-downloads-en/jct-downloads-weekly-en which does not have this problem. This version is stable at this point, but does contain some beta crypto plug-ins not ready for production yet. In case you don't want to use that, our next release candidate 7 will be available next week.

Dominik