Re: java.security

[Brian Jones]

Mark Benvenuto <address@hidden> writes:

> Brian Jones wrote:
> 
> > Our java.security implementation wants a file in
> > java.home/lib/security/ called classpath.security.  I'm not sure what
> > to put in this file to denote the proper providers.  I'm also not sure
> > this work was ever done but my guess is it works in libgcj.  The
> > current error message I get with Japize (after throwing in a
> > printStackTrace to catch a RuntimeException):
> >
> > java.lang.RuntimeException: The SHA algorithm was not found to use in 
> > computing the Serial Version UID for class java.lang.Object
> >         at java/io/ObjectStreamClass.setUID(ObjectStreamClass.java:400, pc 
> > = 572)
> >         at java/io/ObjectStreamClass.<init>(ObjectStreamClass.java:300, pc 
> > = 47)
> >         at java/io/ObjectStreamClass.lookup(ObjectStreamClass.java:60, pc = 
> > 61)
> >
> 
> If the file classpath.security (instead of sun's java.security) does
> not exist, java.security.Security should be throwing an
> exception. What you need in classpath.security is primarily specify
> the security provider(s).

It does, so I gave it a blank file.  :)  Now it has

> Classpath:
> 
> security.provider.1=gnu.java.security.provider.Gnu
> 

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Brian Jones <address@hidden>