Hallo,

I have a problem with public-key en/decryption on a Solaris10 box with java
1.4.2_9. Within the code below on 'cipher.init()' I receive an
InvalidKeyException: 'java.security.InvalidKeyException: Must be a PBEKey
in RAW format.: Key is invalid.'
The strange thing here is that the algorithm works Windows and Linux boxes
as well as on Solaris10. I'm a bit confused of where a can look to solve
this issue.

Any ideas?
Kind regards,
Christian

The relevant code for creating the cipher where the Exception is thrown:
[...]
/** salt byte array */
private static final byte[] PBE_SALT = new byte[] {
   (byte) 0xce, (byte) 0xfb, (byte) 0xde, (byte) 0xac,
   (byte) 0x05, (byte) 0x02, (byte) 0x19, (byte) 0x71};

private static final byte[] PASSWD_ARRAY = new byte[] {
   (byte) 0x72, (byte) 0x74, (byte) 0x21, (byte) 0x6c,
   (byte) 0x69, (byte) 0x63, (byte) 0x32, (byte) 0x30,
   (byte) 0x30, (byte) 0x35};

/** parameters for secret algorithm */
private static final AlgorithmParameterSpec ALGO_PARAM_SPEC =
   new PBEParameterSpec(PBE_SALT, 2005);

private static char[] passwd = null;

static {
   try {
       passwd = new String(
              PASSWD_ARRAY, BASE64_CHARSET).toCharArray();
       key = SecretKeyFactory.getInstance("PBEWithMD5AndDES")
           .generateSecret(new PBEKeySpec(passwd));
   } catch (InvalidKeySpecException e) {
       System.err.println("License initialization problems!");
   } catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException e) {
       System.err.println("License initialization problems!");
   } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
       System.err.println("License initialization problems!");
   }
}
[...]

static Cipher createCipher(final int opMode)
   throws NoSuchAlgorithmException, NoSuchPaddingException,
       InvalidKeyException, InvalidAlgorithmParameterException,
       LicenseException {
   if (key == null) {
       throw new CustomException("Secret key could not be created.");
   }
   Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance("PBEWithMD5AndDES");

   /* on init an InvalidKeyException is thrown */
   cipher.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE, key, ALGO_PARAM_SPEC);    

   return cipher;
}