Thread: C/C++ programmer doing Java encryption project

Hello all. I've recently started doing a java encryption/decryption project using the crypto and security packages. I have very little experience with java although I do have a lot of experience in C and C++ so I am no stranger to OO programming. Anyway, I have this one line of code which is causing me a problem.

import java.util.*;
import DataLog.*;
 
import java.security.*;
import javax.crypto.*;
import javax.crypto.spec.*;
 
public class JCipher {
        private static Cipher jc;
	public static void main(String[] args)
	{
                  /* Apparently this method does not exist, how should I use the Cipher class? */
                  jc = Cipher.getInstance("DES/CBC/PKCS5Padding");
        }
}

Obviously I have more code than that, but it shows the principle.

Here is the compiler message:

JCipher.java:79: unreported exception java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException; must be caught or declared to be thrown
                jc = Cipher.getInstance("DES/CBC/PKCS5Padding");
                                       ^
1 error

I am using JDK 6.27, did they change the interface for accessing the classes, all the info I can find says that I should get an instance rather than doing something like: jc = new Cipher(...);

The only other idea I have is that my imports are wrong but all the examples I've looked at have the same imports.