will Rijndael run in Electronic Code Book mode ?

Is this a valid line of code ?

In other words, will Rijndael encipher in Electronic Code Book mode ?

This is my first non-trivial effort, the books jump from intro to advanced without much in the bracket where I need it.

Not an answer to your question, but instead of using the Cryptix provider I'd go with http://www.bouncycastle.org/ or the AES implementation of JCE itself. (Rijndael became AES, but I'm sure you know that already.)

This page suggests that the JCE implementation can use AES combined with ECB.
[ March 11, 2008: Message edited by: Ulf Dittmer ]

At my current skill level, I picked the Cryptix provider because I liked the name better. I unpacked all the sources because I can copy-paste faster from them than from the api-docs, which run somewhat lumpy to me because of running in the browser. It is my personal opinion that the naming of the providers reflects political leanings and I would like to stay with Crypt Ticks. Their docs state NoPadding and None, the page you cite uses PKCS7Padding ECB does not need padding, does it ? At least not if it runs one byte at a time, which was my understanding from reading the provided examples.

The last html page I read from Sun plainly claims AES and so on are now avaiable without loading third party libs. I wanted to use ECB/NoPadding because it fits my understanding at the moment, I am trying to get into all the Prime Number Generation / Vol 4 Knuth and everything but that is slow trudgery for me now. Use of the AES implementation of JCE itself. suits my needs well, I just used the Cryptix because when I got to being able to code my first DES-56 ( I mean really first ) that was where I was able to read an example and copy-paste directly from source code.

I kinda like the Cryptix comments better also. I changed the name from AES to "Rijndael" as a consequence of reading this week that AES is Rijndael - not because I knew what difference it would make. I had sample code that accepted the algorithm name Rijndael, could not find "AES" the provided sources. Let me clarifiy I should be doing 32-bit beginner shift/XOR right now ~ I am going to 2048/AES because the people who will be reviewing the code will not take me seriously with any less.

Hi Nicholas,
I have used both with BC and works fine.

Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance("Rijndael/ECB/NoPadding", "BC");

as well as

Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance("AES/ECB/NoPadding", "BC");

And as expected the output is same.

Aryan

Thank you Mr. Kahn, this provides me enough confidence to get on with some other areas of work that will eventually rely on this.

I will wrap this in exception handling, and assume as always that this must be used as part of a cross-locked interworking of controls.

Okay, I resorted to editing the policy files to get something to run. I expanded the exception handling and it appears that the edited code runs to completion without throwing.

Policy files look like this:
( tried a build - seems to run )

Code looks like this: {edited 3/22/2008}

I have tried SUN, SunJCE, AES, Rijndael, NoPadding, PKCS5Padding .....
{edited code appears to run}
The only thing I have been able to get running is posted here in the edited code.

I would like to hear any comments.
[ March 22, 2008: Message edited by: Nicholas Jordan ]