I am not able to use pkcs#7 as a provider for keytool. I want to read
a certificate chain encoded in PKCS#7 format using keytool.
When running the following command
keytool -import -provider pkcs7 -keystore my_cert.jks -file cert.p7 -

Does anyone know if there is a way of setting the length of the hashed
value returned from a message digest?

   i asked this yesterday, but there is no one answer me. i thought
maybe i hadn't discripted clear.  here is the question:  there is a
directory /root/user/aaa/bbb directory, and i give the directory
FilePermission ("/root/user/aaa/bbb", "read,write"); permission. does

I'm going to be implementing an applet for a customer over the next month
or so that interfaces with the customers phpFox installation and
downloads, updates, and uploads images.  
The problem of course, is that I don't want just anyone to be able to