PING: RFR: JDK-4347142: Need method to set Password protection to Zip entries

[Yasumasa Suenaga]

PING: Could you review it?
We want to move forward this enhancement.

Thanks,

Yasumasa
2016/03/19 22:01 "Yasumasa Suenaga" <yasuenag at gmail.com>:

> Hi Alan,
>
> > I think the main issue here is to decide whether the API
> > should be extended for encryption or not.
>
> We've discussed on the premise that we add the API for supporting ZIP
> encryption.
> In this context, Sherman tried to implement AES encryption extending
> current API. [1]
>
> IMHO, ZIP encryption should be implemented as extention of current ZIP API
> because encryption/decryption will process for each ZIP entries.
>
> According to Developers' Guide, guideline for adding new API is TBD. [2]
> What should I do next?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Yasumsa
>
>
> [1]
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2016-January/037903.html
> [2] http://openjdk.java.net/guide/changePlanning.html#api
>
>
> On 2016/03/19 0:25, Alan Bateman wrote:
> >
> > On 18/03/2016 15:02, Yasumasa Suenaga wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> We (including me and Yuji Kubota (ykubota: OpenJDK jdk9 Author))
> discussed
> >> about this issue from Nov. 2015. [1]
> >> We heard several comments and we applied them to our patch.
> >>
> >> I have not heard new comment for our latest patch.
> >> So I send review request for it. Could you review it?
> >>
> >>    webrev:
> >>      http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ysuenaga/JDK-4347142/webrev.04/
> >>
> >>    Usage of new API:
> >>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ysuenaga/JDK-4347142/webrev.04/Test.java
> >>
> > Yasumasa - I think the main issue here is to decide whether the API
> > should be extended for encryption or not. If exposing it in the API make
> > sense then I assume that alternative names to java.util.zip.ZipCryption
> > needs to be explored.
> >
> > -Alan.
> >
>