Re: Req for Info

Jan Luehe (luehe@laguna.eng.sun.com)
Thu, 17 Sep 1998 09:35:46 -0700 (PDT)

Rangan:

> I am working on java based Internet Security. I have gone through the
> documentation on How to Implement a Provider for the JavaTM Crypography
> Architecture - it was of great help. I am still looking for one more
> information - a documentation on the APIs of sun.security.provider. They
> do not seem to come with the JDK Documentation.
> Could you possible help me out ?

The APIs in sun.security.provider are SUN-private.
You do not need to know them. The classes in that package
provide implementations of all the algorithms supported
by the SUN provider (in the form of SPI implementation classes).

For example, the sun.security.provider.MD5 class extends
off of java.security.MessageDigestSpi and implements the
MD5 message digest algorithm.

Jan