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Re: security providers and ...

Tom Tromey wrote:

"Raif" == Raif S Naffah <raif@fl.net.au> writes:



Raif> i think the cure is:

Raif> 1. to catch the ClassCastException,
Raif> 2. test if the newly instantiated class is an instance of
Raif> java.security.MessageDigestSpi,
Raif> 3. if it isnt re-throw the exception, otherwise
Raif> 4. wrap the newly instantiated class in a proxy class that channels the
Raif> MessageDigest calls to the wrapped Spi (inner) class.

This seems reasonable to me, but then I don't really know that much
about java.security :-).  Could you submit a PR for this problem?  Or,
if you like, a patch?



i'll co-ordinate with Mark (Wielaard) for both.


cheers;
rsn

















  
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