[PDFBOX-2236] Useless dependency in specific usage

• Type: Wish
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.8.6
• Fix Version/s: 1.8.7
• Component/s: Signing
• Labels: easyfix
• Assignee: Tilman Hausherr
• Reporter: Cyril Bremaud
• Created: 23/Jul/14 15:10
• Updated: 19/Sep/14 14:40
• Resolved: 23/Jul/14 15:53

Description

In class org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.digitalsignature.visible.PDVisibleSignDesigner line 324 you use Arrays.clone() method from BouncyCastle.

This creates a dependency on BouncyCastle if we try to add a visual signature (computed by third party solution) to a pdf document.
For this specific usage this dependency seems useless and could be avoided using the copy method of the class java.util.Arrays.

Could you fix this issue in a future version ?