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Title: Installing Bouncy Castle
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Installation of Bouncy Castle for use in TomEE itself is done in two steps:

 1. Add the Bouncy Castle provider jar to the `$JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/ext` directory
 1. Create a Bouncy Castle provider entry in the  `$JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/security/java.security` file

The entry to `java.security` will look something like the following:

    security.provider.N=org.bouncycastle.jce.provider.BouncyCastleProvider

Replace `N` with the order of precedence you would like to give Bouncy Castle in comparison to the
other providers in the file.  **Recommended** would be the last entry in the list -- `N` being the higest number in the list.
**Warning** that configuring Bouncy Castle as the first provider, `security.provider.1`, may cause JVM errors.