[Webfunds-devel] good keys, bad keys...

Tue, 05 Sep 2000 11:59:39 -0400

Edwin Woudt wrote:
> 
> Ian Grigg <iang@julius.ai> wrote:
> 
> > (I think.... as this is a DOS attack on the Teller, it is hard
> > to see what is happening as I have about 100 threads all doing
> > the same thing....)
> 
> Are these threads all in one java program?
> 
> In that case it is probably the problem that a key object is not
> thread-safe, i.e. you cannot verify two signatures at the same time using
> the same key.

This is exactly the reason why you need a separate Signature 
object that holds the signing/verification state. 
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