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Document Number:336334562
Functional Area: WebSphere Commerce Suite
Subfunctional Area: Troubleshooting
Sub-Subfunctional Area: General
OS/400 Release:V5R3M0; V5R4M0; V6R1M0
Product: ENG ISERIES WCS BE (5733WC500)
ISERIES PROF ENTRY (5733WC501)
WCS PRO AS/400 (5798WC500)
WEBSPHERE COMMERCE SUITE V5.5 (5724A1890)
Product Release:N/A


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Document Title
Solutions for Algorithm DESede Not Available Exception with WCS on IBM iSeries

Document Description
Problem

*** Error Message ***

Fatal exception in creating TripleDESCipher
java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException: Algorithm DESede not available

java/lang/Throwable.<init>(Ljava/lang/String;)V+4 (Throwable.java:85)
java/lang/Exception.<init>(Ljava/lang/String;)V+1 (Exception.java:33)
java/security/GeneralSecurityException.<init>(Ljava/lang/String;)V+1 (GeneralSecurityException.java:39)
java/security/NoSuchAlgorithmException.<init>(Ljava/lang/String;)V+1 (NoSuchAlgorithmException.java:36)
javax/crypto/b.a(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/String;)[Ljava/lang/Object;+0 ([DashoPro-V1.2-120198]:0)
javax/crypto/Cipher.getInstance(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljavax/crypto/Cipher;+0 ([DashoPro-V1.2-120198]:0)
com/ibm/commerce/util/CipherObjectPool.create()Ljava/lang/Object;+0 (CipherObjectPool.java:15)
com/ibm/commerce/util/WCObjectPool.checkout()Ljava/lang/Object;+0 (WCObjectPool.java:38)
com/ibm/commerce/util/wrapper/nc_cryptx.encrypt(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/String;+0 (nc_cryptx.java:277)
com/ibm/commerce/util/nc_crypt.encrypt(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/String;+0 (nc_crypt.java:56)
com/ibm/commerce/util/ChangePassword.doUpdate(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/String;Ljava
/lang/String;Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/String;)V+0 (ChangePassword.java:29)
com/ibm/commerce/util/ChangePassword.main([Ljava/lang/String;)V+0 (ChangePassword.java:93)

%3DES-F-CIPHERINIT; Exception caught while initializing the cipher object. ; java.lang.NullPointerException


ERROR: null
Java program completed

*** End of error message ***

Cause
The incorrect JDK level is specified in SystemDefault.properties for the user profile issuing the command or thesecurity.provider.3=com.ibm.crypto.provider.IBMJCE is missing or commented out in the java.security file for the specific JDK version.

WCS
Version		 JDK
Version
5.11.2
5.4 1.3
5.51.3

Solution

1Ensure the correct Java version is specified in the SystemDefault.properties being used to issue the command. Sample SystemDefault.properties:

java.version=x.x

where x.x is the version of the JDK associated with the WCS version being used.
2Open the /QIBM/ProdData/Java400/jdkXX/lib/security/java.security file where XX is the JDK version associated with the WCS version.

In the java.security file, find the following section:

# List of providers and their preference orders (see above):
#
security.provider.1=sun.security.provider.Sun
security.provider.2=com.sun.rsajca.Provider
security.provider.3=com.ibm.crypto.provider.IBMJCE
#security.provider.3=com.ibm.crypto.provider.IBMJCE

Ensure the security.provider.3=com.ibm.crypto.provider.IBMJCE line is not commented out. If this line is commented out, remove the "#" from in front of the security.provider.3=com.ibm.crypto.provider.IBMJCE line, and save the file.

3If this error is seen on the Configuration Manager client side (for WCS 5.4 and 5.1), ensure that the config_env.bat path points to the JDK supplied with the WAS admin console (set PATH=e:\jdk1.3.1\bin;%PATH%"). The e:\jdk1.3.1\bin must be changed to the path of the JDK that will be used to start the RAWTGui.jar. The path of the JDK for IBM® WebSphere® administrative console is suggested; for example, C:\WebSphere\appserver\java\bin.



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