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Hi,

I am working on a project that requires hashing data. Unfortunately, I 
have been unable to get NSS to return a valid context for hashing. Here 
is the initialization code:

    62 void chasm :: mylib_init()
- -   63 {
|   64     chasm_init_data.s_nspr_inited = PR_FALSE;
|   65     chasm_init_data.s_nss_inited = PR_FALSE;
|   66 
|   67     if (!PR_Initialized())
|-  68     {
||  69         PR_Init(PR_USER_THREAD, PR_PRIORITY_NORMAL, 0);
||  70     
||  71         if (!PR_Initialized())
||  72             _nss_error();
||  73 
||  74         chasm_init_data.s_nspr_inited = PR_TRUE;
||  75     }
|   76 
|   77     if (!NSS_IsInitialized())
|-  78     {
||  79         SECStatus status = NSS_Init(NULL);
||  80 
||  81         if (status != SECSuccess)
||  82             _nss_error();
||  83 
||  84         chasm_init_data.s_nss_inited = PR_TRUE;
||  85     }
|   86 }

Note: _nss_error() throws an exception.

The initialization of NSS fails (nothing is in PR_GetErrorText however). 
We plan on using SSL later, so a full NSS stack is necessary (saw an 
earlier post that pkcs#12 would do it, though to be honest I didn't see 
anything about how to hash with it in the docs). Any hints? Thanks in 
advance.

- --Ben
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