Encryption Error

Brent Putman putmanb at georgetown.edu
Wed Jul 6 18:55:43 EDT 2016



On 7/6/16 6:27 PM, Brent Putman wrote:
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>> In fact, GCM didn't even work properly with Java 7's JCE, that I recall.
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> I'm not sure, I can't keep them straight.

Luckily I still had my sandbox class sitting around where I can test
this empirically...

> It might not with Oracle's default security provider set (although I
> could be wrong),

I wasn't wrong.  The SunJCE provider on Oracle (MacOS) JDK 1.7.0_79
doesn't support AES GCM, period.
 

> but pretty sure it does with BC configured.
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JDK 7 does however work for AES GCM with BC installed as a security
provider.

And for the record, Oracle (MacOS) JDK 8 does support it out-of-the-box
in their provider set.
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