Instantiating a SecureRandom object from an applet

[pyin@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Perry L. Yin)]

Instantiating a SecureRandom object from an applet in Communicator 4.6.1

caused the following exception.  There's no error when running the
applet in IE 5 however.

java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError:
netscape.security.AppletSecurityException: security.checkpropsaccess.key

#  UniversalPropertyRead privilege not enabled: Reading information
stored in your computer, such as your user name
  at java.security.MessageDigest.getInstance(MessageDigest.java:138)
  at java.security.SecureRandom.<init>(SecureRandom.java:111)
  at
progress.message.security.ProgressSecureRandom.<init>(ProgressSecureRandom.java:82)

.....

The problem appears to be the applet has no permission to access the
security property
file java.security in order to find out which security provider has the
SHA-1 implementation
required for creating the SecureRandom object.   Any help is very much
appreciated.

Perry


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