Trail: Security Features in Java SE
Lesson: Generating and Verifying Signatures
Section: Verifying a Digital Signature
Input the Signature Bytes
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Input the Signature Bytes

Next, input the signature bytes from the file specified as the second command line argument.

FileInputStream sigfis =
    new FileInputStream(args[1]);
byte[] sigToVerify = new byte[sigfis.available()]; 
sigfis.read(sigToVerify);
sigfis.close();

Now the byte array sigToVerify contains the signature bytes.


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