I wonder if anybody here can enlighten me as to how to calculate the
fingerprint of an x.509 certificate, programmatically in java, that is.
I have already tried this below but the result didn't look like what I
obtained otherwise (running "openssl x509 -noout -fingerprint -sha1 -in

I am signing a jar that I am deploying with webstart. When I click on
the link, the application loads, then dies without ever prompting me if
I trust the certificate or not. I looked at the console output, and the
application stopped because of a security exception. That is what I

Can anyone clearify what is OASIS?
I would also get to know how to implement SAML security
into web service in Java platform.  Does anyone know any sample
projects where to start?

I need to crypt a seed with a 3DES key, but the problem is that this
symmetric key was generated by a smart card and have ony 16 bytes, and
when I try to generate with the following code
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I'm trying to use Java's HMAC to sign an XML document, and I'm having
mixed success. On the one hand, I know how to compute a correct
HMAC-value out of some shared-secret, but on the other hand I do not
know how to use this in the context of XML signature.

When I run an application with IBM's JDK, am getting the following
exception:
"java.lang.SecurityException: SHA MessageDigest not available"
Any idea on how to create support for this Message Digest algo? One way

I have two questions.  Is there a way to detect if a user does not
accept the signed web applet?  Also, if you accept the signed applet
and check to not remind again, how do you clear that so it prompts
again in IE?  Thanks