Re: Can't find algorithms

Rowland Smith (rowland@oss.com)
Mon, 28 Jul 1997 00:10:09 -0400

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Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 00:10:09 -0400
To: Marianne Mueller <mrm@Eng>
From: Rowland Smith <rowland@oss.com>
Subject: Re: Can't find algorithms

At 05:26 PM 7/27/97 -0700, Marianne Mueller wrote:
>Are you setting the CLASSPATH so that it includes the JDK as well as
>jce.zip? This is a common mistake - you need to access jce.zip ahead
>of the JDK classes.

jce.zip is in the CLASSPATH. I know it's there because when I try to
instantiate a CiperOutputStream, it tells me I passed a null as the second
parameter to the constructor, (so 'java' found the Cipher.class) which
should be a Cipher, but I can't instantiate one :)

>Incidentally, there is no need for you to add the JDK classes zip file
>to your CLASSPATH. The scripts that invoke java (the interpreter)
>and javac (the compiler) automatically pick up the classes.zip file
>from the JDK distribution.

Thanks,
Rowland Smith