OpenSAML user discussion

["Cantor, Scott E." <>]

> Does the Java implementation of signing use the same underlying C libraries
> for the crypto stuff (via JNI say) or is it implemented in Java?

No, it's pure Java. The layer in between is JCE. If you had a JCE provider 
that supported native code, it would more or less work, and there was a 
prototype version done on top of OpenSSL that we donated to Apache but it 
didn't get much use once the Java perf issues were fixed.

-- Scott