hello there, pls find attached a patch to existing MessageDigest.getInstance14.java and a new Engine.getInstance file to ensure that Provider, Service and Algorithm names should be recognized even when they contain extra space characters. the corresponding ChangeLog entry follows: 2006-01-02 Raif S. Naffah * gnu/testlet/java/security/MessageDigest/getInstance14.java (test): Corrected string literal used in harness.checkPoint(). Added 2 new testcases to test passing Provider and Algorithm names with extra spaces. * gnu/testlet/java/security/Engine/getInstance.java: new file. -- cheers; rsn