I've got such a thing myself: http://www.osjava.org/genjava-core/apidocs/com/generationjava/security/Securer.html
and do believe it's a good thing. However it's not within Lang's scope. Codec already has the other half the equation [hex representations] so possibly this could fall withing Codec's realm. Hen On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Dave Dribin wrote: > Would there be interest in a DigestUtils class that simplifies using > java.security.MessageDigest objects? Personally, I find it a huge > pain to do a simple MD5 digest. Also, it's often necessary to > get the hex representation of the digest. For starters, I would > propose the following API: > > public static String md5hex(String data); > public static String md5hex(bytes[] data); > > public static byte[] md5(String data); > public static byte[] md5(bytes[] data); > > There could be similar methods for SHA digests. I already have a > non-polished implementation that I would be willing to submit (after > polishing). > > -Dave > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
