Thank you, that may be the whole problem right there. You're right, I might have found that if I had looked more carefully at the BouncyCastle site.
I assumed that if there was some special trick involved in setting up BouncyCastle, it would have been mentioned somewhere in iText or that iText users could point me in the right direction to a solution. After all, if there are lots of iText users and all of them install BouncyCastle too - especially in Eclipse - it would seem reasonable that all of them would have stumbled on the need to do something special. Right now, it sounds plausible that this missing policy file in JDK 1.6 is the problem. I have certainly not downloaded any such policy file, although possibly Eclipse already has it installed somewhere. I'll give this a try and check back here if it doesn't solve my problem. Thanks again, -- Rhino Benjamin Rein wrote: > > Here is another hint: http://www.bouncycastle.org/documentation.html > You could have looked this one up yourself by using the keywords Paulo > gave you (i.e. bouncycastle policy file). > > Best regards > Benjamin > > > Von: Rhino <[email protected]> > An: Post all your questions about iText here > <[email protected]> > Datum: 19.01.2010 14:19 > Betreff: Re: [iText-questions] Setting Up iText and BouncyCastle > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > I know nothing about crypto beyond the fact that it codes information. > What is a policy file? Where precisely do I get it? How do I know > exactly which policy file I need? Where do I install it in Eclipse to > make sure the iText and BouncyCastle classes compile correctly? > > -- > Rhino > > Paulo Soares wrote: > > You'll have to download a policy file from Sun to be able to use the > full > > crypto strength. > > > > Paulo > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Rhino" <[email protected]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 3:02 AM > > Subject: [iText-questions] Setting Up iText and BouncyCastle > > > > > > I was using an older version of iText - 1.22 perhaps? - back around > > 2005/2006 and have been away from Java development since then. Now, I > > find myself back and the intervening years have been hard on my memory. > > I would appreciate some guidance on setting up iText and BouncyCastle. > > > > I have Eclipse 3.5.1 up and running on Windows XP and I am trying to > > remember how to set up a Java project so that it can see both iText 5.0 > > and BouncyCastle. I'd like to be able to call on all the classes of both > > and be able to debug the source for my project, iText and BouncyCastle. > > > > I've tried everything I can think of to make iText and BouncyCastle > > visible to my project but I know I'm doing something wrong because a few > > of the classes can't be seen. I keep getting messages like: > > > > "/Access Restriction: The type BlockCipher is not accessible due to > > restriction on required library C:\Program > > Files\Java\jre6\lib\ext\bcprov-jdk16-145.jar./ " > > > > I have placed bcprov-jdk16-145.jar, bctsp-jdk16-145.jar, and > > bcmail-jdk16-145.jar in the lib/ext folder of my JRE. I've also down > > hours of fiddling within Eclipse to make the source and jars visible but > > I always have a few classes that have red X's on them and the error > > messages always look like the one I've cited. > > > > Can someone please remind me how to get this all working correctly? > > > > -- > > Rhino > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the > > world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for > Conference > > attendees to learn about information security's most important > issues through > > interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established > companies. > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev > > _______________________________________________ > > iText-questions mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > > > > Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php > > Check the site with examples before you ask questions: > http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ > > You can also search the keywords list: > http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/ > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the > world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for > Conference > attendees to learn about information security's most important issues > through > interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established > companies. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > > Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php > Check the site with examples before you ask questions: > http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ > You can also search the keywords list: > http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/ > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________ > > Viessmann IT Service GmbH > Geschäftsführer: Dirk Klöckner, Dr. Harald Dörnbach > Sitz der Gesellschaft: Allendorf (Eder) - Registergericht: > AG Marburg (Lahn) - HRB 5324 - USt-IdNr.: DE258558424 > ____________________________________________________________________ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the > world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference > attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through > interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > > Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php > Check the site with examples before you ask questions: > http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ > You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/
