diff --git a/core/java/build.xml b/core/java/build.xml
index df743ddc16..b86303d80f 100644
--- a/core/java/build.xml
+++ b/core/java/build.xml
@@ -128,6 +128,7 @@
         <!-- EdDSA test vectors -->
         <copy todir="./build/obj">
             <fileset dir="./test/junit/">
+                <include name="net/i2p/crypto/eddsa/test.data"/>
                 <include name="net/i2p/crypto/eddsa/math/baseDblPrecmp"/>
                 <include name="net/i2p/crypto/eddsa/math/basePrecmp"/>
             </fileset>
@@ -154,7 +155,7 @@
         <!-- warning - The junit.test target below doesn't actually include i2ptest.jar in the classpath,
              only the build/obj directory.
           -->
-        <jar destfile="./build/i2ptest.jar" basedir="./build/obj" includes="**/*.class **/baseDblPrecmp **/basePrecmp" />
+        <jar destfile="./build/i2ptest.jar" basedir="./build/obj" includes="**/*.class **/test.data **/baseDblPrecmp **/basePrecmp" />
     </target>
     <!-- preparation of code coverage tool of choice -->
     <target name="prepareClover" depends="compile" if="with.clover">
diff --git a/core/java/test/junit/net/i2p/crypto/eddsa/Ed25519TestVectors.java b/core/java/test/junit/net/i2p/crypto/eddsa/Ed25519TestVectors.java
index 4871561beb..fd0e2ba3d3 100644
--- a/core/java/test/junit/net/i2p/crypto/eddsa/Ed25519TestVectors.java
+++ b/core/java/test/junit/net/i2p/crypto/eddsa/Ed25519TestVectors.java
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package net.i2p.crypto.eddsa;
 
 import java.io.BufferedReader;
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.InputStreamReader;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Collection;
@@ -32,8 +33,10 @@ public class Ed25519TestVectors {
         List<TestTuple> testCases = new ArrayList<TestTuple>();
         BufferedReader file = null;
         try {
-            file = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
-                    Ed25519TestVectors.class.getResourceAsStream(fileName)));
+            InputStream is = Ed25519TestVectors.class.getResourceAsStream(fileName);
+            if (is == null)
+                throw new IOException("Resource not found: " + fileName);
+            file = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
             String line;
             while ((line = file.readLine()) != null) {
                 testCases.add(new TestTuple(line));