Re: [GNU Crypto] latest checkins

[Casey Marshall]

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On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 01:33:33PM +1000, Raif S. Naffah wrote:

> On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 12:43 pm, Casey Marshall wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 11:03:26AM +1000, Raif S. Naffah wrote:
> > > ...
> > > hopefully also by then, all needed algorithms and primitives
> > > required by (a) Jessie, and (b) a GNU Keyring File manager, would
> > > be present and ~tested.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > Some test programs using Jessie can work with GCC 3.4, modulo some
> > stability bugs (occasionally it just ends with "Aborted", or, less
> > often, "Illegal Instruction"), and with this patch:
> >
> > <http://metastatic.org/source/jessie/libjava-rsa.patch.gz>
> >
> > Which adds PKCS#1 1.5 RSA signatures to the "Gnu" provider, similar
> > to the patch I posted to the Classpath list awhile ago.
> 
> the "GNU" Provider is supposed to offer what the standard JDK offers in 
> term of cryptography.  to my knowledege this scheme (unless i'm 
> mistaken) is not part of the JDK --only the DSA is.  all additional 
> bells and whistles are in external extensions; i.e. in our case GNU 
> Crypto.  so IMO digital signature schemes, other than DSA should be all 
> in one place.
> 

True, "Sun" providers don't include RSA, but the JDK (AFAIK) always
ships with a "SunRsaSign" provider, which does include RSA. "IBMJCE"
(which is IBM's catch-all provider for their JRE) contains it too.

Besides, if a crypto-less Classpath implementation wants to use X.509
certificates -- which will be useful in the case of signed classes -- it
will need RSA readily available.

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Casey Marshall || address@hidden
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