In a small piece of sample code running on Java 8, I’m trying to follow the advice from the bc-fips-1.0.2.jar user guide, Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC-FJA 1.0.2 (Bouncy Castle FIPS Java API) User Guide Date: 09/14/19: Note: support for FIPS mode appears to have started disappearing with Java 1.9, it has been confirmed that it is a