[Cryptix-users] trying to run cryptix on 1.5 - NoSuchAlgorithmException ARCFOUR

[Robert R. <rr...@gs...>]

Hey Folks!

I'm trying to upgrade the JVM from 1.4.1. to 1.5.0 for an internal 
project, and am running into a problem.  Every time our Cryptix wrapper 
class gets invoked, i get this following exception (this time i'm 
running from Junit)

EncryptionFailureException(0) Unable to initialize cryptography 
provider, {}, java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException:algorithm ARCFOUR 
is not available from provider Cryptix
    at com.wendys.common.crypto.Crypto.<init>(Crypto.java:56)
    at 
com.wendys.common.crypto.CryptoTest.testEncryptEric(CryptoTest.java:36)


I've added the following line to the java.security file:

#
# List of providers and their preference orders (see above):
#
security.provider.1=sun.security.provider.Sun
security.provider.2=cryptix.provider.Cryptix
security.provider.3=sun.security.rsa.SunRsaSign
security.provider.4=com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Provider
security.provider.5=com.sun.crypto.provider.SunJCE
security.provider.6=sun.security.jgss.SunProvider
security.provider.7=com.sun.security.sasl.Provider

And out of desperation i've copied all of the jars included with the 
latest distribution of cryptix to the jre\lib\ext directory of my JDK 
installation.

None of this helps.  The odd thing is, if you look at the constructor 
below, we're asking for cipher 'RC4', but it comes back 'ARCFOUR', and 
i'm not sure why.  If it is at all possible, I would like to try to make 
this work with no code changes.

Thank you.

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public class Crypto {

    /** The Cipher instance that will be used for encryption/decryption */
    private Cipher cipher;
    /** The name/id of the algorithm used by the Cipher instance (in 
this case RC4) */
    private static final String ALGORITHM_NAME = "RC4";
    /** The JCE provider to use for encryption/decryption */
    private static final String PROVIDER_NAME = "Cryptix";
  
    /**
     * Create a new Crypto instance for encryption/decryption
     * services.  Adds/installs the Cryptix provider into the JVM
     * and creates a new Cipher instance internally.
     *
     * @throws EncryptionFailureException if problems occur installing 
the provider or creating the Cipher
     */
    public Crypto() throws EncryptionFailureException {
        super();
        Security.addProvider(new Cryptix());
       
        try {
            cipher = Cipher.getInstance(ALGORITHM_NAME, PROVIDER_NAME);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            throw new EncryptionFailureException( "Unable to initialize 
cryptography provider", e );
        }
    }
...