DES.java

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

My apologies for the resend -- this should have gone to e-lang in the
first place.

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The other day I discovered that the kaffe java library does not
support the java.security classes.

Actually, it didn't support BigInteger either.  I talked to Tim Wilke
today, and he noted that their stated support was for the ``Personal
Java'' subset, which does not include BigInteger.  The latest snapshot
includes BigInteger support, so don't get too worried about that.

My guess is that the cryptix library contains support to actually do
everything difficult that is in the java.security classes.

How hard would it be to implement a ``stub'' version of the
java.security classes that used the cryptix library to do all of the
hard work?  It would sure be nice if this stuff ran on kaffe!


shap


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