FWIW: FIPS isn't new - it's been around for MANY years. In addition, there are multiple variants of FIPS...
Leonard On 1/22/09 3:31 PM, "David Thielen" <da...@windward.net> wrote: Hi; The government has a new security standard called FIPS. One of our customers turned on their implementation of FIPS and with iTextDotNet (not the Java version) we now get the following - and we do not do any encryption of the PDF. It runs fine if FIPS is not turned on. Any ideas - thanks - dave Exception: Error serializing value 'ExceptionConverter: java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException: java.lang.InstantiationException: com.ms.vjsharp.security.provider.MD5' of type 'com.lowagie.text.ExceptionConverter.' Inner Exception: System.Runtime.Serialization.SerializationException: Type 'com.lowagie.text.ExceptionConverter' in Assembly 'iText, Version=1.4.1.2, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=82be440d6061a22f' is not marked as serializable. at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.WriteObjectInfo.InitSerialize(Object obj, ISurrogateSelector surrogateSelector, StreamingContext context, SerObjectInfoInit serObjectInfoInit, IFormatterConverter converter, ObjectWriter objectWriter) at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.WriteObjectInfo.Serialize(Object obj, ISurrogateSelector surrogateSelector, StreamingContext context, SerObjectInfoInit serObjectInfoInit, IFormatterConverter converter, ObjectWriter objectWriter) at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.ObjectWriter.Serialize(Object graph, Header[] inHeaders, __BinaryWriter serWriter, Boolean fCheck) at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.BinaryFormatter.Serialize(Stream serializationStream, Object graph, Header[] headers, Boolean fCheck) at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.BinaryFormatter.Serialize(Stream serializationStream, Object graph) at System.Web.UI.ObjectStateFormatter.SerializeValue(SerializerBinaryWriter writer, Object value) -- Leonard Rosenthol PDF Standards Architect Adobe Systems Incorporated ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php