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Re: Cryptography provider
- From: Anthony Green <green at redhat dot com>
- To: Joerg Brunsmann <joerg_brunsmann at yahoo dot de>
- Cc: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>, mark at klomp dot org, java at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 03 Dec 2002 09:03:09 -0800
- Subject: Re: Cryptography provider
- References: <20021203162204.39363.qmail@web20503.mail.yahoo.com>
On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 08:22, Joerg Brunsmann wrote:
> 1. What's the rationale for loading two different provider files?
The 'classpath' security provider file is system wide, so is shared with
other GNU classpath users.
Systems like gcj may also have VM specific providers (like, gcj may have
special CNI using providers).
> 2. Why doesn't the 'libgcj.security' file define a provider?
> 3. What's the rationale for loading two different provider files
> if one file doesn't define a provider?
For instance, I install the Bouncy Castle provider as a shared library,
so I just modify my gcj security file.
AG