# PKCS7 support in JDK

Sangeeta Varma (Sangeeta.Varma@Eng)
Mon, 21 Sep 1998 14:12:16 -0700 (PDT)

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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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