GSSException: Failure unspecified at GSS-API level (Mechanismbytes long)

[Seema Malkani]

Such an error is returned if DES computation on the checksum failed.

Have you configured to use the DES encryption type ? Is this error 
returned when using J2SE 1.4 or J2SE 1.5 ? Can you provide more details 
on this.

Seema

hunterae wrote:

>I am having a problem that may seem to indicate an issue between java
>1.4 and 1.5 communication. I am using the GSS-API as a means of
>communication between a client and server application. The server
>performs all of its encryption as a Kerberos principal service. The
>client logins into Kerberos as a standard Kerberos user and initializes
>a SecurityContext with the server's Kerberos principal service. All
>messages passed back and forth between the client and server are then
>encrypted using wrap and unwrap. This all works fine if both the client
>and server are run using java 1.4 or 1.5. However if one is java 1.4
>and one is java 1.5, I get the above exception. I need to get around
>this in some way as I will not be sure which version of java the
>various clients will be using. Any ideas what may be causing this and
>how to fix it?
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