Is java.security.MessageDigest methods digest() and reset() threadsafe

[Chase Bonham]

Are the java.security.MessageDigest methods digest() and reset() threadsafe?

[Sam Semwal]

MessageDigest probably isn't thread safe unless it's mentioned in the API.

[Chase Bonham]

Thats where the confusion is for me. In the Javadoc for the lang API, is it safe to assume that if nothing is mentioned about synchronization then it is probably thread safe??..

Look at .. java.text.SimpleDateFormat, java.util.HashMap there is specific
mention of synchronization.

[Jim Yingst]

In general the rule is that you should assume that a class is not designed to be used by multiple threads, unless the docs specifically say it is. It's true that some docs specifically tell you when a class isn't thread-safe, but that's not really necessary. There are also a few classes which are really thread-safe even though the docs don't say so, but you generally can't rely on that. The default is that classes are not thread-safe unless it's otherwise stated.

[Hongbing Kou]

Confirmed that it is not thread safe. You will get weird errors after loading up your application in multi-thread environment.