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Sangeeta Varma writes:
> Hi,
>
> The sun.security pacakge in the JDK contains an implementation of the PKCS7, but
> supports only SignedData type. Is there any plan to add EnvelopedData and
> EncryptedData types support ?
>
> I would like to extend the PKCS7 class to add this functionality myself. But it is not
> straight-forward to extend this class. All the parsing of the signed data is implemented
> as private to the class. To be able to provide a new class which can parse signed/
> enveloped/encrypted data I will need to duplicate code from the PKCS7 class.
>
> Why was this class designed like this ??
>
> Thanks,
> Sangeeta
>
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