Andrew John Hughes wrote: > 2009/11/12 Arigead <captain.deadly@xxxxxxxxx>: >> Hello All, >> sorry new here and haven't had time to lurk for a while to see the >> lie of the land. >> >> I'm trying to run Jxta on Jamvm 1.5.3 with Classpath 0.98. I'm getting >> an error because of jks security not being found. I'll post the error >> I'm getting at the end of this email. >> >> A bit of searching on the Internet gives me a few posts by somebody with >> a similar problem [1] & [2]. I can't find any responses and solutions to >> this problem. >> >> I'm not sure how to get around this issue. I'm sure that there are many >> implementations of this security algorithm and I wonder can a lump of >> code be added included into the JRE or can source code be added to >> classpath. I mean there could I, if I had a clue ;-) add the necessary >> code into classpath source? I'd prefer if I could pull in something like >> BouncyCastle, although I'm not sure it would solve the problem as I'm >> not sure it implements this functionality. >> >> I'm not great with Java I'm afraid so I'm not sure that a BounceyCastle >> could be used to implement functionality that is being requested of the JRE. >> >> Sorry for a newbie post and thanks a million for any advice that anybody >> can offer. >> >> >> [1] >> http://old.nabble.com/Problem-in-using-SSL-%28secure-socket%29-with-classpath-0.98-and-Jamvm-1.5.3-td23997596.html >> [2] http://www.mail-archive.com/classpath@xxxxxxx/msg15120.html >> >> >> >> >> Caused by: java.security.KeyStoreException: jks >> at java.security.KeyStore.getInstance(KeyStore.java:203) >> at java.security.KeyStore.getInstance(KeyStore.java:130) >> at >> net.jxta.impl.membership.pse.CMKeyStoreManager.<init>(CMKeyStoreManager.java:148) >> at >> net.jxta.impl.membership.pse.PSEKeyStoreManagerFactory$PSEKeyStoreManagerFactoryDefault.getInstance(PSEKeyStoreManagerFactory.java:143) >> ...24 more >> Caused by: java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException: Algorithm [jks] of >> type [KeyStore] from provider >> [gnu.javax.security.auth.callback.GnuCallbacks: name=GNU-CALLBACKS >> version=2.1] is not found >> at gnu.java.security.Engine.getInstance(Engine.java:191) >> at gnu.java.security.Engine.getInstance(Engine.java:105) >> at java.security.KeyStore.getInstance(KeyStore.java:188) >> ...27 more >> >> >> >> >> >> > > jks is not a crypto algorithm but a keystore format, and a proprietary > Sun one until the release of OpenJDK. > I guess in theory support could now be developed using the Sun source > code as a reference, but there's not much work on Classpath in general > at present. > > http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34731 Andrew thanks a million for the Education. That totally answers my question perfectly. Don't get me a quick easy and dirty solution but at least now I know where I stand. cheers
