Using openssl, the command is... However, I will need to do this often and have written a Java class that handles this and more (my application is mostly .jsp with Tomcat and Apache). When I try run the same command from Java using Runtime.

If you have data for which a digital signature was generated, you can verify the authenticity of the signature. To do so, you need In this example you write a VerSig program to verify the signature generated by the GenSig program.