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Miscellaneous

[Fixed] Unsigned application requesting unrestricted access to system

Subject/ Problem Description

The following error is displayed when launching applications signed with the MD5withRSA or MD5withDSA algorithms after upgrading to Java.

Unable to launch the application.
Unsigned application requesting unrestricted access to system
Unsigned application requesting unrestricted access to system. 
The following resource is signed with a weak signature algorithm MD5withRSA 
and is treated as unsigned: http://example.net/ExampleApplication.jar
Symptoms / Root Cause:

Applications signed with the MD5withRSA or MD5withDSA algorithms are treated as unsigned by Java starting with the Java 8 Update 131 release.