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by dead10ck 4211 days ago
Another example of "Wtf were they thinking when they wrote this?" in the Java stdlib is MessageDigest. To build a digester object, you must pass it a string literal to tell it which algorithm to use, and catch a NoSuchAlgorithm exception. Instead of, you know, just using an enum for all supported algorithms.
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crypto5 4211 days ago
I think standard Java library API doesn't know what algorithms are supported on particular platform, additionally you can implement your own messagedigest.
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dead10ck 4211 days ago
They list the algorithms explicitly here:

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/security/Mess...

And here:

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/secur...

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AnimalMuppet 4211 days ago
Right - if I understand correctly, it can depend on what crypto packages are installed on your target.
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