You don't need to use BC.

-- dims

On 12/1/06, Rishi krish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi
Again this a newbe question:
The BouncyCastle jar does not come with normal axis distribution and I guess
we have to put a reference to that in the java.security file for
Encryption/Signature to work with axis2 and have that jar file in the
lib/ext folder of the jre..

Q1>Is the use of BouncyCastle hardcoded in the axis2 software? [this would
be not a nice thing]
Q2>What value does BouncyCastle provide if I am using jdk1.5 [which somes
with a RSA imlpementation by default although not strong enough I guess]?
Q3>Can I not have BouncyCastle and have say another provider which provides
the same functionality - this is related to Q1.

My point is any standard J2EE server today will provide WS-Security support
- so they must have some provider which does that encryption [strong enough]
and signature for them. I am not sure why wss4j/axis2 cannot use that
provider whcih comes with a J2EE server. If it can then I dont have the
extra download and also dont have to setup BC in the java.security file.

I was looking into the archives and saw some issues with BC and IBM jdk and
am not sure if those have been resolved yet. My target platform is Websphere
6.1 [jdk 1.5] and feeling a little bit shaky on BouncyCastle.

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thanks
Rishi


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