security providers and ...

[Raif S. Naffah]

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