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Re: Cryptography provider


--- Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org> wrote: 

> 4. Yes it is used for example when a SHA1 algorithm is needed for
> calculating a class SUID. And, if I have ever time to implement it, it
> will be used by the java.util.jar package when verifying manifest
> signatures. (Hint, hint, if someone wants something nice to hack on ...)

But even with such an implementation the 'keytool' and 'jarsigner' tools 
can't be implemented in gcj compiled java source code since we're missing 
a KeyStore implementation which is distributed by default.

Jörg

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