Am Thu, 22 May 2014 20:49:26 -0500 schrieb "David M. Lloyd" <david.ll...@redhat.com>: > Using MessageDigest.clone() is the usual approach. Theoretically > though, some providers won't be cloneable; the only practical > recourse in this case is to replay the whole of the input, > unfortunately.
Yes, I have the need to persist the partial state in a database. So I would need to get the actual state bytes. In some cases I can use the clone() and its also not a big problem to request providers which are known to be Cloneable. Greetings Bernd