Cryptography provider

Tue Dec 3 09:02:00 GMT 2002

On Tue, 2002年12月03日 at 08:22, Joerg Brunsmann wrote:
> 1. What's the rationale for loading two different provider files?

The 'classpath' security provider file is system wide, so is shared with
other GNU classpath users.
Systems like gcj may also have VM specific providers (like, gcj may have
special CNI using providers).
> 2. Why doesn't the 'libgcj.security' file define a provider?
> 3. What's the rationale for loading two different provider files
> if one file doesn't define a provider?

For instance, I install the Bouncy Castle provider as a shared library,
so I just modify my gcj security file.
AG