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Created October 1, 2013 23:39
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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 :(");
}
}
}
@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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