Receving a SecurityException: The jurisdiction policy files are not signed by a trusted signer!

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Issue

  • While changing from OpenJDK to Oracle JDK, getting SecurityException. During upgrade lib/security was copied over to new JDK
  • Receiving SecurityException after upgrading Java version.
Caused by: java.lang.SecurityException: The jurisdiction policy files are not signed by a trusted signer!
        at javax.crypto.JarVerifier.verifyPolicySigned(JarVerifier.java:289)[:1.7.0_10]

Environment

  • Java using JCE cryptography
  • JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/security contains policy files from another installation of Java

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