security providers and ...

[Raif S. Naffah]

Vladimir Puskas wrote:
 > Lars Andersen wrote:
 >> Raif S. Naffah wrote:
>>>i think the cure is...
>>
>>...I think the problem is buried somewhere else...
> 
> ...Does it mean SHA should extend MessgeDigestSpi too, or they (SHA & MD5) are
> unrelated?

the former.  any implementation of a class that has a related xxSpi 
(MessageDigest as well as others), should extend/implement the xxxSpi 
base class, as per JDK dox.

cheers;
rsn