My application validates a license file in order for it to work. It does this by calling javax.crypto.Cipher.getInstance("DES","SunJCE") inorder to decipher the license key file.
When I run my application locally everything works fine but when I deploy my application with jboss and get to the point where I want to validate the license file on the servlet, I get the following error:
java.lang.SecurityException: JCE cannot authenticate the provider SunJCE
at javax.crypto.Cipher.getInstance(DashoA13*..)
at javax.crypto.Cipher.getInstance(DashoA13*..)
Like I said, it works fine from command prompt and eclipse, but not as a servlet on jboss. Does anybody have any idea what I need to do? I am using jdk 1.6 and jboss as 7.
Thanks
There are a couple of possible issues that come in mind, it seems to be a problem with classpath when sun/oracle jvm try to authenticate provider jars
check that all security jars are under the <jdk_home>/jre/lib/ext
of the jvm that runs jboss
(ie US_export_policy.jar, sunjce_provider.jar, local_policy.jar....)
about US_export_policy.jar and local_policy.jar be sure to have downloaded the unrestricted version
java.security file in <jdk_home>/jre/lib/security
: be sure to have a line similar to security.provider.X=com.sun.crypto.provider.SunJCE
where X is a number
be sure that sunJCE provider jar is not in you WEB-INF/lib
I figured out what was wrong with my code. Earlier in the code for some reason someone did the following:
if (SunJCEinProviders)
{
Security.removeProvider("SunJCE");
}
int i = Security.insertProviderAt(new com.sun.crypto.provider.SunJCE(),1);
So for some reason we were removing javas initial SunJCE provider then adding a new one and this new one was failing to be authenticated.