Because it's 1. faster [imagine some megabytes of attachments having to be decrypted every time you click on that mail], and 2. much easier to handle some readable text than arrays of bytes.
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 4:40 AM, axeldx...@gmail.com <axeldx...@gmail.com>wrote: > > [...] > The question that I can't get out of my head is: why is it necessary > to hash the message? Why can't it only be enough with encrypting the > message? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java EE (J2EE) Programming with Passion!" group. To post to this group, send email to java-ee-j2ee-programming-with-passion@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to java-ee-j2ee-programming-with-passion+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/java-ee-j2ee-programming-with-passion?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
