JEP proposed to target JDK 26: 524: PEM Encodings of Cryptographic Objects (Second Preview)

Mark Reinhold mark.reinhold at oracle.com
Mon Nov 10 20:15:28 UTC 2025


2025/11/3 14:43:43 -0500, Mark Reinhold:
> The following JEP is proposed to target JDK 26:
>
>   524: PEM Encodings of Cryptographic Objects (Second Preview)
>      https://openjdk.org/jeps/524
>
>   Summary: Introduce an API for encoding objects that represent
>   cryptographic keys, certificates, and certificate revocation lists into
>   the widely-used Privacy-Enhanced Mail (PEM) transport format, and for
>   decoding from that format back into objects.  This is a preview API.
>
> Feedback on this proposal from JDK Project Committers and Reviewers [1]
> is more than welcome, as are reasoned objections.  If no such objections
> are raised by 20:00 UTC on Monday, 10 November, or if they’re raised
> and then satisfactorily answered, then per the JEP 2.0 process proposal
> [2] I’ll target this JEP to JDK 26.

Hearing no objections, I’ve targeted this JEP to JDK 26.

- Mark


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