Hello,
Do you mean that I cannot not use SunPKCS11 with iText-5.3.0 now?
If I need to do the digital signature with a smart card, how can I do?
Would you please to show me a simple example?
Best regards,
Eric
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Andreas Kuehne <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> yes, it could be useful to denote a special provider for hashing. Maybe
> the best solution would be to have a signing provider parameter and an
> optional parameter for hash usage, which defaults to BC.
>
> I wouldn't recommend to make decision upon provider names within the
> code (like the check for SunPKCS11). This fails far to easily. E.g. I
> prefer to use the iaik PKCS11 provider ;-)
>
> Greetings,
>
> Andreas
> > Andreas,
> >
> > Andreas Kuehne-3 wrote
> >> would we be better off if iText doesn't use the given provider for
> >> hashing? The specified provider is usually intended for the signing
> stuff.
> >> And BC is always a good choice for hashing algorithms.
> > That can be a solution, too. Maybe, though, someone prefers a specific
> > digest algorithm implementation but cannot guarantee the provider being
> > positioned at an early enough position in the provider list. On the other
> > hand iText cannot consider all tiny special cases and such persons should
> > create their signature containers externally.
> >
> > Most important in my eyes, though, is to make the provider handling in
> iText
> > consistent --- if excluding SunPKCS11 when retrieving a digest algorithm
> > once, it should be done in all similar contexts.
> >
> > Regards, Michael
> >
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