Name: vmR10215 Date: 03/15/2004


The description of the method
public static final Cipher getInstance(String transformation)
        throws NoSuchAlgorithmException,
        NoSuchPaddingException
says:
"Generates a Cipher object that implements the specified transformation.
...
     Parameters:
         transformation - the name of the transformation, e.g., DES/CBC/PKCS5Padding.
         See Appendix A in the Java Cryptography Extension Reference Guide for information about
         standard transformation names.
...
     Throws:
         NoSuchAlgorithmException - if the specified transformation is not available in the
         default provider package or any of the other provider packages that were searched.
         NoSuchPaddingException - if transformation contains a padding scheme that is not available."

It is not clear from the spec. how the metod must behave if transformation
 - is null or
 - empty or
 - of wrong format (e.g. "aaa/bbb/ccc/ddd/fff", "///", ...)

The same issue is applied to all Cipher.getInstance methods.

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