FWIW Tomcat 8.5.4 "Alias name tomcat does not identify a key entry"

Cantor, Scott cantor.2 at osu.edu
Fri Aug 12 17:47:01 EDT 2016


On 8/12/16 5:09 PM, Tom Zeller wrote:
> Looks like Tomcat 8.5.4 throws a “java.io.IOException: Alias name tomcat
> does not identify a key entry” exception if the certificateKeyAlias is not
> “tomcat”. I don’t know what the impact is, and it looks like it’s fixed
> in yet-to-be-released Tomcat 8.5.5.

This is in the keystore for the server's TLS key?

I'd be less concerned about the specific issue, and more concerned about
what they're doing mucking with that code suddenly that would have
caused such a regression.

-- Scott



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