Kafka Connect error "HmacSHA256 KeyGenerator not available"

Issue

• Getting the following exception:

ERROR Stopping due to error (org.apache.kafka.connect.cli.ConnectDistributed:86)
java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
        at org.apache.kafka.connect.cli.ConnectDistributed.startConnect(ConnectDistributed.java:95)
        at org.apache.kafka.connect.cli.ConnectDistributed.main(ConnectDistributed.java:80)
Caused by: org.apache.kafka.common.config.ConfigException: Invalid value HmacSHA256 for configuration inter.worker.key.generation.algorithm: HmacSHA256 KeyGenerator not available
        at org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.distributed.DistributedConfig.validateKeyAlgorithm(DistributedConfig.java:491)
        at org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.distributed.DistributedConfig.lambda$static$2(DistributedConfig.java:371)
        at org.apache.kafka.common.config.ConfigDef$LambdaValidator.ensureValid(ConfigDef.java:1029)
        at org.apache.kafka.common.config.ConfigDef$ConfigKey.<init>(ConfigDef.java:1150)
        at org.apache.kafka.common.config.ConfigDef.define(ConfigDef.java:152)
        at org.apache.kafka.common.config.ConfigDef.define(ConfigDef.java:172)
        at org.apache.kafka.common.config.ConfigDef.define(ConfigDef.java:211)
        at org.apache.kafka.common.config.ConfigDef.define(ConfigDef.java:373)
        at org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.distributed.DistributedConfig.<clinit>(DistributedConfig.java:367)