Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 12:03:00 -0800 (PST)
From: Jan Luehe <Jan.Luehe@Eng>
Subject: Re: jce
To: java-security@web2.javasoft.com, johnthom@gofast.net
John:
> I am having no luck with the jce1.2 api. Is there anywhere I can find
> some discussion and/or examples of it's use.
>
> Specifically, when trying to run samples gleaned from the JCE 1.2 API
> Specification & Reference, I get ...
>
> java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException: algorithm DES not available.
>
> I am running jdk1.2beta2 with the jce1.2 jar file.
>
> I thought sun was a default provider for DES, et al?
Yes, it is.
Please make sure that the built-in "SunJCE" provider supplied by Sun
is registered properly.
http://developer.javasoft.com/developer/earlyAccess/jdk12/jce12_install.html
explains how to register that provider.
Jan