When trying to establish an SSL connection to a server, using client authentication, the SSL connection fails before handshaking completes with the exception:

javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: Error signing certificate verify
        at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Alerts.getSSLException(Alerts.java:150)
        at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.fatal(SSLSocketImpl.java:1476)
        at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Handshaker.fatalSE(Handshaker.java:174)
        at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.ClientHandshaker.serverHelloDone(ClientHandshaker.java:608)
        at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.ClientHandshaker.processMessage(ClientHandshaker.java:160)
        at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Handshaker.processLoop(Handshaker.java:495)
        at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Handshaker.process_record(Handshaker.java:433)
        at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.readRecord(SSLSocketImpl.java:815)
        at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.performInitialHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1025)
        at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.writeRecord(SSLSocketImpl.java:619)
        at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.AppOutputStream.write(AppOutputStream.java:59)
        at java.io.BufferedOutputStream.flushBuffer(BufferedOutputStream.java:65)
        at java.io.BufferedOutputStream.flush(BufferedOutputStream.java:123)
        at ssltest.ConnTestStub.verifyConnection(ConnTestStub.java:363)
        at ssltest.ConnTestStub.testConnectionDirectSecureAuth(ConnTestStub.java:291)

This happens with Java 1.5 Update 2 on both Solaris 8 (reported, but not confirmed with test case) and Solaris 9. However, it does not occur with Java 1.5 Update 2 on Solaris 10, and nor does it happen with Java 1.4.x on any of those OS versions.
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