http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/guide/security/CryptoSpec.html
Under "architecture", same document exists for later jvms. This is the same type of document that e.g. lists default charsets. Uwe "Robert Muir" <[email protected]> schrieb: >On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 4:04 AM, Uwe Schindler <[email protected]> wrote: >> Md5 is guaranteed to be there (like utf8 as charset). This is >documented in crypto Api, which algorithms are available for digest. >> > >where is this documented? its not in the javadocs. > >anyway, we shouldn't be doing this: >* this algorithm might not exist on J2ME etc (still java), you need to >install an extra crypto add-on. >* we shouldnt start up an expensive PKI infrastructure on mac os X, >including spawning a new thread, just to hash a string. thats absurd. >* we pay all these costs ... for md5! its not even a good hash! > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] -- Uwe Schindler H.-H.-Meier-Allee 63, 28213 Bremen http://www.thetaphi.de --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
