diff --git a/api/src/main/java/org/killbill/billing/util/UUIDs.java b/api/src/main/java/org/killbill/billing/util/UUIDs.java
index 698afd7..9a89bdd 100644
--- a/api/src/main/java/org/killbill/billing/util/UUIDs.java
+++ b/api/src/main/java/org/killbill/billing/util/UUIDs.java
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ public abstract class UUIDs {
return new DigestRandomGenerator(MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA-1"));
}
catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException ex) {
- throw new AssertionError("unexpeced missing SHA-1 digest", ex);
+ throw new Error("unexpeced missing SHA-1 digest", ex);
}
}