Basic Encryption Question

Question

Hello all,
I am trying to do a basic string encryption and decription but am getting an exception.
java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException: Algorithm DES not available Here is a code that I found online and I am trying to run it as an example. I am using j2sdk1.4.2_08 and have included sunjce_provider.jar in my class path.
package security1;
import java.security.Key;
import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
import java.security.Security;
import javax.crypto.KeyGenerator;
public class DESKeyGenerator {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Security.addProvider(new com.sun.crypto.provider.SunJCE());
        try {
            KeyGenerator kg = KeyGenerator.getInstance("DES");
            Key key = kg.generateKey();
            System.out.println("Key format: " + key.getFormat());
            System.out.println("Key algorithm: " + key.getAlgorithm());
        catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
}I am getting the exception at
KeyGenerator kg = KeyGenerator.getInstance("DES");I would appreciate any help.
Thankyou

Answer 1

Thank you so much wetmore.
I looked up online to find out about the bug and was finally able to solve the issue.
Here is what I have done, verbatim, as reported on the Eclipse's bug reporting website. The solution is from the thread mentioned in the link below.
" ------- Comment #13 From M.H.  2003-10-23 06:49  -------
@Gary Murphy: there is a workaround (somewhere posted in bugzilla) how to get
it running in Eclipse. In your run configuration, remove the default JRE lib
entry from the bootstrap classes and add external jars jce.jar, rt.jar and
jsse.jar instead."The entire discussion for other fellow developers can be found at:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?format=multiple&id=38370
Here are your remaining duke dollars wetmore.
Thank you once again.