Cryptix (cryptix JavaDoc)

This class acts as a security provider for the Java Cryptography Architecture. The mapping between cipher names and classes is stored in the Cryptix.properties file (see CryptixProperties).

SECURITY: In JavaSoft's version of JCE, Provider indirectly extends Hashtable, which means that it would normally be possible to call the put, remove or clear methods to change properties without any security check (also the load method from Properties). This is arguably a design bug in JCA and/or the Properties class.

This class works around the potential security problem by not using the Hashtable superclass. Instead it delegates to CryptixProperties.

$Revision: 1.7 $

Since: Cryptix 2.2.2

Author: David Hopwood Jill Baker Raif S. Naffah

Method Summary
String	getProperty(String key)
String	getProperty(String key, String defaultValue)
void	list(PrintStream out)
void	list(PrintWriter out)
Enumeration	propertyNames()
void	save(OutputStream os, String comment)
String	toString()

Class Cryptix

Field Detail

serialVersionUID

Constructor Detail

Cryptix

Method Detail

getProperty

getProperty

list

list

propertyNames

save

toString