/* MessageDigestSpi.java --- The message digest service provider interface. Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of GNU Classpath. GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA. Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole combination. As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from or based on this library. If you modify this library, you may extend this exception to your version of the library, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version. */ package java.security; /** This is the Service Provider Interface (SPI) for MessageDigest class in java.security. It provides the back end functionality for the MessageDigest class so that it can compute message hashes. The default hashes are SHA-1 and MD5. A message hash takes data of arbitrary length and produces a unique number representing it. Cryptography service providers who want to implement their own message digest hashes need only to subclass this class. The implementation of a Cloneable interface is left to up to the programmer of a subclass. @version 0.0 @author Mark Benvenuto */ public abstract class MessageDigestSpi { /** Default constructor of the MessageDigestSpi class */ public MessageDigestSpi() { } /** Returns the length of the digest. It may be overridden by the provider to return the length of the digest. Default is to return 0. It is concrete for backwards compatibility with JDK1.1 message digest classes. @return Length of Digest in Bytes @since 1.2 */ protected int engineGetDigestLength() { return 0; } /** Updates the digest with the specified byte. @param input the byte to update digest with */ protected abstract void engineUpdate(byte input); /** Updates the digest with the specified bytes starting with the offset and proceeding for the specified length. @param input the byte array to update digest with @param offset the offset of the byte to start with @param len the number of the bytes to update with */ protected abstract void engineUpdate(byte[]input, int offset, int len); /** Computes the final digest of the stored bytes and returns them. It performs any necessary padding. The message digest should reset sensitive data after performing the digest. @return An array of bytes containing the digest */ protected abstract byte[] engineDigest(); /** Computes the final digest of the stored bytes and returns them. It performs any necessary padding. The message digest should reset sensitive data after performing the digest. This method is left concrete for backwards compatibility with JDK1.1 message digest classes. @param buf An array of bytes to store the digest @param offset An offset to start storing the digest at @param len The length of the buffer @return Returns the length of the buffer @since 1.2 */ protected int engineDigest(byte[]buf, int offset, int len) throws DigestException { if (engineGetDigestLength() > len) throw new DigestException("Buffer is too small."); byte tmp[] = engineDigest(); if (tmp.length > len) throw new DigestException("Buffer is too small"); System.arraycopy(tmp, 0, buf, offset, tmp.length); return tmp.length; } /** Resets the digest engine. Reinitializes internal variables and clears sensitive data. */ protected abstract void engineReset(); /** Returns a clone of this class. If cloning is not supported, then by default the class throws a CloneNotSupportedException. The MessageDigestSpi provider implementation has to overload this class in order to be cloneable. */ public Object clone() throws CloneNotSupportedException { return super.clone(); } }