JDK-8021907 : DRS: certificate element algorithm is supposed to default to SHA-256
  • Type: Bug
  • Component: deploy
  • Affected Version: 7u40
  • Priority: P3
  • Status: Closed
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • Submitted: 2013-07-30
  • Updated: 2014-02-12
  • Resolved: 2013-08-01
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Description
The certificate element has two arguments, hash and algorithm.
If you specify algorithm="SHA-256" everything works as expected.
If you omit the algorithm arg it is supposed to default to SHA-256 but instead it causes a NPE inside security libs code due to passing in the null algorithm
Comments
Verified using 7u40-b42
09-09-2013

SQE-OK to get this issue fixed for 7u40
31-07-2013