I downloaded the examples and tried to run the KeyGeneratorExample.java on Chapter 2.

I keep getting Exception in thread "main" java.security.InvalidKeyException: Illegal key size

I had to include this line:
Security.addProvider(new org.bouncycastle.jce.provider.BouncyCastleProvider ());

So the system would recognize the vendor.
I use JBuilder 2006, but I doubt that's the problem.

Am I the only one having this problem?

Have you installed the unrestricted policy files for the JCE?

Regards,

David

Yes I did.
I placed them in my jre directory and made sure that Java_home environment variable is pointing there.

Thanks for such a quick response. Your book is the first one I read on security and I like it very much. It's very thorough. I'm sure it's one of those configurations problems, but I can't find what it can be.

Thanks for the feedback. Be sure to tell your friends! ;)

By JRE directory, you mean you unpacked the zip file and put the two jar files in jre/lib/security?

Sometime it turns out that IDEs are not using the JRE we think... a good way to check this is to try running the example from the command line. Also in the chapter1 package you'll find a SimplePolicyTest class which will try a couple of things that check the policy files are in place.

What happens when you run chapter1.SimplePolicyTest? Do you find you get different behaviour using the command line versus JBuilder?

Regards,

David