Error while installing Bouncy Castle provider in EJBCA.

Question

Hi!

I'm trying to access an EJBCA server via the provided web services from my java application. I am trying to run the following code snippet from the official documentation (http://ejbca.org/docs/adminguide.html#Using%20the%20Web%20Service%20API%20for%20Integration):

  CryptoProviderTools.installBCProvider();  
  String urlstr = "https://localhost:8443/ejbca/ejbcaws/ejbcaws?wsdl";

  System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStore","p12/wstest.jks");
  System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword","foo123");  

  System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.keyStore","p12/wstest.jks");
  System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.keyStorePassword","foo123");      

  QName qname = new QName("http://ws.protocol.core.ejbca.org/", "EjbcaWSService");
  EjbcaWSService service = new EjbcaWSService(new URL(urlstr),qname);
  ejbcaraws = service.getEjbcaWSPort();

However, the first line gives me a ClassCastException: org.bouncycastle.jce.provider.BouncyCastleProvider cannot be cast to org.bouncycastle.jce.interfaces.ConfigurableProvider. I have checked that the BouncyCastleProvider does implement the ConfigurableProvider interface.

More curiously, when i call the function twice (CryptoProviderTools.installBCProvider()), the second time around i get a NoSuchFieldError, with the following cause: java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: SN

Thank you very much for your help :)

Answer 1

I was having the same problem, I found this document "The Cryptoworkshop Guide to Java Cryptography and the Bouncy Castle APIs" at http://www.cryptoworkshop.com/guide/cwguide-070313.pdf

which says: To install the provider at run time just add: Security.addProvider(new BouncyCastleProvider());

This also requires importing:

import java.security.Security; import org.bouncycastle.jce.provider.BouncyCastleProvider;

If I check the providers I do see BC

    Provider[] myProviders = Security.getProviders();

    for (Provider prov : myProviders) {
        System.out.println("Prov:" + prov.getName());
    }

(requires importing import java.security.Provider)

but now I'm stuck when I try to get any info from ejbca I get the

Administrator is not authorized to resource /administrator. Msg: .

So hope that helps you.