Hi George,

The most likely problem is that the policy jars were not copied to the 
correct place in your Windows installation. The error is not a Derby 
error. It is coming from the JRE.

Hope this helps,
-Rick

George H wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a program that uses Derby 10.5.3.0 to create an embedded DB 
> with an encryption key.
> I am using Blowfish/CBC/NoPadding with a key size of 256. I have a 
> windows XP and a Linux machine. Both have Sun JDK v1.6 u17 and I 
> installed the JCE jar files from the sun site.
>
> The problem is that the DB is being created on my linux machine with 
> no problems but, on windows it keeps giving me an error of Illegal Key 
> Size. If I switch the encryption to DES with 56bit key then it works fine.
>
> I created a sample program in java to test the Blowfish and it works. 
> It just seems to be derby that complains of the illegal key size. Is 
> there something I am missing here?
>
> Attached to the email is the log file of derby with the stack trace, 
> should it be of help to anyone.
> --
> George H
> george.dma@gmail.com <mailto:george.dma@gmail.com>