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J2EE™ Security for Servlets, EJBs and Web Services: Applying Theory and Standards to Practice
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J2EE™ Security for Servlets, EJBs and Web Services: Applying Theory and Standards to Practice

by Pankaj Kumar
September 2003
Intermediate to advanced
464 pages
12h 22m
English
Pearson
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Cryptographic Services and Providers

In Java API terminology, cryptographic services are programming abstractions to carry out or facilitate cryptographic operations. Most often, these services are represented as Java classes with names conveying the intent of the service. For example, digital signature service, represented by java.security.Signature class, creates and verifies digital signatures. However, not all services are directly related to cryptographic operations. Take the functionality to create certificates. This is provided as a certificate factory service through service class java.security.cert.CertificateFactory.

An instance of a service is always associated with one of many algorithms or types. The algorithm determines the specific ...

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