RFR: 8258588: MD5 MessageDigest in java.util.UUID should be cached

Fri Dec 18 14:45:24 UTC 2020

On Fri, 18 Dec 2020 14:37:53 GMT, Sean Mullan <mullan at openjdk.org> wrote:

> MD5 and DES were removed as SE requirements in JDK 14. See https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8214483 for more information. However, there are no plans to remove the implementations from the JDK at this time.

In this case, should a bug report be filled to require specifying behaviour for `UUID#nameUUIDFromBytes(byte[])` in case of MD5 not being present?

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/1821