Somehow, the JCE continues to amaze me. It claims to support the AES
cypher, yet the following code throws a NoSuchAlgoritmException:

import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;

import javax.crypto.Cipher;
import javax.crypto.NoSuchPaddingException;

public class CypherTest {

   public static void main(String[] args) throws
   NoSuchAlgorithmException, NoSuchPaddingException {
       Cipher aes = Cipher.getInstance("AES");
       System.out.println(aes);
   }
}

Results in:

Exception in thread "main" java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException: Cannot
find any provider supporting AES
    at javax.crypto.Cipher.getInstance(DashoA12275)
       at CypherTest.main(CypherTest.java:10)

But wait, there's more. If  i explicitly get my Providers, and list their
Services, i can clearly see Cipher.AES begin supported by the SunJCE
Provider. However, if i explicitly try to instantiate it by

public static void main(String[] args)
throws NoSuchAlgorithmException, NoSuchPaddingException {
  Provider jce = Security.getProvider("SunJCE");
  Cipher aes = Cipher.getInstance("AES", jce);
  System.out.println(aes);
}

I get
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.SecurityException: JCE cannot
authenticate the provider SunJCE
    at javax.crypto.Cipher.getInstance(DashoA12275) at
    CypherTest.main(CypherTest.java:13)
Caused by: java.util.jar.JarException: Class is on the bootclasspath
    at javax.crypto.SunJCE_d.a(DashoA12275) at
    javax.crypto.SunJCE_b.b(DashoA12275) at
    javax.crypto.SunJCE_b.a(DashoA12275) ... 2 more

Can someone shed some light on this?