Hi Rishi/Dims what do you suggest to replace BC provider?
M- This e-mail communication and any attachments may contain confidential and privileged information for the use of the designated recipients named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this communication in error and that any review, disclosure, dissemination, distribution or copying of it or its contents ----- Original Message ----- From: "Davanum Srinivas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 6:09 PM Subject: Re: BouncyCastle and axis2 > 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. >> >> -- >> thanks >> Rishi > > > -- > Davanum Srinivas : http://www.wso2.net (Oxygen for Web Service Developers) > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
