3. Designate your Security Provider

The JSSE follows the same "provider" architecture found in the Java Cryptography Architecture (JCA) which is provided in the Java 2 platform as the Java Cryptography Extension (JCE). In order to use JSSE you must install this provider either statically or dynamically. Again, you must do this for all of your SDK/JSSE installations.

To install the provider statically you must edit the security properties file (JAVAhome/lib/security/java.security). Edit this file as follows, the boldface text is the part you must add:

security.provider.1=sun.security.provider.Sun

security.provider.2=com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Provider

The first line of this file depends upon your SDK platform and should not be changed.

To install the provider dynamically in your Java application, you should call the addProvider method of the java.security.Security class. The line in your source code would look like this:

Security.addProvider( new com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Provider() );