Here's the sequence of events (I'm on win xp): I envoked the jarsigner. C:\****path to jar*****\>jarsigner myjar.jar Mushu The prompt responded and I entered my passphrase Enter Passphrase for keystore:**** The prompt throws error jarsigner error: java.lang.RuntimeException: keystore load: C:\*******path to my xp user thing*******\.keystore (The system cannot find the file specified) Why am I getting this error and how can it be fixed?