SecurityException with Bouncy Castle

Question

I am on Mac OS and getting this issue after performing software update on my mac.

Caused by: java.lang.SecurityException: JCE cannot authenticate the provider BC
    at javax.crypto.SunJCE_b.a(DashoA13*..)
    at javax.crypto.SecretKeyFactory.getInstance(DashoA13*..)
    at org.jasypt.encryption.pbe.StandardPBEByteEncryptor.initialize(StandardPBEByteEncryptor.java:667)
    ... 95 more
Caused by: java.util.jar.JarException: Cannot parse jar:file:/Users/himajumdar/Work/jboss/jboss-5.1.0.GA/server/default/tmp/a00c-b5p2h4-hgi84jo1-1-hgi84qe5-w/csa.ear!/lib/bcprov-jdk15-140.jar
    at javax.crypto.SunJCE_c.a(DashoA13*..)
    at javax.crypto.SunJCE_b.b(DashoA13*..)
    at javax.crypto.SunJCE_b.a(DashoA13*..)
    ... 98 more

I tried these suggestions

1. Added security.provider.11=org.bouncycastle.jce.provider.BouncyCastleProvider to java.security
2. Added bcprov-jdk15-140.jar under /Home/jre/lib/ext

but that dint help. I tried updating jdk6 to jdk7 and did the same, and got a slight different error of unsigned jar

    at org.jboss.seam.Component.newInstance(Component.java:2132)
    ... 75 more
Caused by: java.lang.SecurityException: JCE cannot authenticate the provider BC
    at javax.crypto.JceSecurity.getInstance(JceSecurity.java:114)
    at javax.crypto.SecretKeyFactory.getInstance(SecretKeyFactory.java:243)
    at org.jasypt.encryption.pbe.StandardPBEByteEncryptor.initialize(StandardPBEByteEncryptor.java:667)
    ... 95 more
Caused by: java.util.jar.JarException: jar:file:/Users/himajumdar/Work/jboss/jboss-5.1.0.GA/server/default/tmp/a00c-4nf5e1-hgiayarg-1-hgiayihg-w/csa.ear!/lib/bcprov-jdk15-140.jar has unsigned entries - csa-ejb-3.45.0.8-SNAPSHOT.jar
    at javax.crypto.JarVerifier.verifySingleJar(JarVerifier.java:462)
    at javax.crypto.JarVerifier.verifyJars(JarVerifier.java:322)
    at javax.crypto.JarVerifier.verify(JarVerifier.java:250)

I have tried this with jdk16-140.jar, but same result. Can someone think of any other option to overcome this issue? Thank you.

Answer 1

1. I got rid of bouncy castle (bcprov-jdk15-140.jar) from my local jre/jdk ext directory
2. Copied bcprov-jdk15-140.jar under /jboss/jboss-5.1.0.GA/server/default/lib/
3. Changed the dependency scope from default compile to provided bouncycastle bcprov-jdk15 140 provided
4. Added "security.provider.11=org.bouncycastle.jce.provider.BouncyCastleProvider" to java.security

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