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A quick test to see if you have the JCE Unlimited Strength Jurisdiction Policy files installed. If you don't, in Java 6 you'll see 128. If you do, you'll see 2147483647. Thanks to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11538746/check-for-jce-unlimited-strength-jurisdiction-policy-files
#!/bin/bash
javac Test.java
java Test
import javax.crypto.Cipher;
class Test {
public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
System.out.println("Hello World!");
int maxKeyLen = Cipher.getMaxAllowedKeyLength("AES");
System.out.println(maxKeyLen);
} catch (Exception e){
System.out.println("Sad world :(");
}
}
}
@raphaelvannson
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Very nice little util. Thanks dude.

@Giszmo
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Giszmo commented Jun 13, 2016

Your code assumes it would crash for merely asking for bullshit policies. Here it doesn't crash and I had to test for maxKeyLen < Integer.MAX_VALUE.

@yamnicz3k
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Thanks dude. 👍

@kmark
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kmark commented Sep 22, 2016

From my understanding 2147483647 (Integer.MAX_VALUE) is not a "bullshit policy" but rather the result you get if you're using OpenJDK which has no limits. See: https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/notes/debian/jce-policy.html

@spicysomtam
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Very useful. Thanks for posting.

@pdehlke
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pdehlke commented Apr 28, 2017

As a one-liner: $JAVA_HOME/bin/jrunscript -e 'print (javax.crypto.Cipher.getMaxAllowedKeyLength("RC5") >= 256);'

@jasonmimick
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one-liner - perfect, needed in bash script!

@TiloGit
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TiloGit commented Nov 7, 2017

thanks for the info. Here mod one liner for WAS (IBM) on Win
C:\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\java\8.0\bin\jrunscript -e "print (javax.crypto.Cipher.getMaxAllowedKeyLength('AES'))"
C:\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\java_1.7.1_64\bin\jrunscript -e "print (javax.crypto.Cipher.getMaxAllowedKeyLength('AES'))"

If you want true/false
jrunscript -e "print (javax.crypto.Cipher.getMaxAllowedKeyLength('AES') >= 256)"
jrunscript -e "print (javax.crypto.Cipher.getMaxAllowedKeyLength('RC5') >= 256)"

@kfowlks
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kfowlks commented Dec 6, 2017

Excellent work!

@daudich
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daudich commented Jun 26, 2018

Thanks for this and the one liners!

@jacky1104
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Thanks dude.

@razorsedge
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unzip -c ${JAVA_HOME}/jre/lib/security/local_policy.jar default_local.policy | grep -q javax.crypto.CryptoAllPermission && echo "unlimited JCE" || echo "vanilla JCE"

@scotlynhatt
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In Eclipse:
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@mnlservices
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Great help, thanks for the post.

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