On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 6:59 AM, artmel <tw4...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am working on an Android project in Eclipse that uses encryption. The
> code contains the following line:
>
> Cipher en = Cipher.getInstance("AES/ECB/NOPADDING");
>
> Eclipse complains about the line of code with: "Unhandled exception type
> NoSuchAlgorithmException" and "Unhandled exception type
> NoSuchPaddingException".
>

yes, because CIpher.geIntance can throw throw those two checked exceptions,
so you program has to deal with them.

> I wrote a simple encrypt/decrypt java program with a text editor outside
> Eclipse that contained that line of code. The program compiled and ran from
> the command line correctly, didn't throw any exceptions, and encrypted and
> decrypted properly.
>
javac from the command like is going to make you either catch or declare
these exceptions as well.

 This tells me that there is a provider properly installed on the machine
> that supports that algorithm and padding but for some reason Eclipse
> doesn't see or cant find some necessary file. I've tried looking through
> various directories and changed Eclipse's search paths several times with
> no luck. Any ideas?
>
this doesn't seem to have anything to do with eclipse, just your lack of
catching these exceptions or declaring that they are thrown.

-bri


>  <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android>
>
> --
> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
> "Android Security Discussions" group.
> To view this discussion on the web visit
> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/android-security-discuss/-/frMJ9lmk_7gJ.
> To post to this group, send email to
> android-security-discuss@googlegroups.com.
> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
> android-security-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
> For more options, visit this group at
> http://groups.google.com/group/android-security-discuss?hl=en.
>

-- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups 
"Android Security Discussions" group.
To post to this group, send email to android-security-discuss@googlegroups.com.
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to 
android-security-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit this group at 
http://groups.google.com/group/android-security-discuss?hl=en.

Reply via email to