Spongycastle provider not working on Android

Question

I am trying to use Spongy Castle on my Android application. As per these instructions, I have added the jar files and then called this method to include provider.

static {
    Security.insertProviderAt(new org.spongycastle.jce.provider.BouncyCastleProvider(), 1);
}

But I still get the error on this line:

KeyStore keyStore = KeyStore.getInstance("SC");

The Exception I get is this:

java.security.KeyStoreException: KeyStore SC implementation not found

I have spent several hours on this and I cannot figure out what I have missed.

"SC" is not a KeyStore rather a provider. It works if I use the default "BKS" provider but not with Spongy Castle provider — Omer Arshad, Sep 13 '14 at 22:39
`KeyStore keyStore = KeyStore.getInstance("PKCS12", BouncyCastleProvider.PROVIDER_NAME); //"SC"` — EpicPandaForce, Jun 05 '15 at 11:14

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 27 '20 at 18:15

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If you use Eclipse, I recommended you download this example and compile it. Based on the example, "SC" is not a KeyStore.

If you need another example, there is a good tutorial here (ECDH - Elliptic Curve Diffie Hellman on Android).

edited Jul 27 '20 at 18:15

Josh Correia

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answered Oct 07 '14 at 22:02

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