Encryption fix in HotSpot

[Aleksey Shipilev]

On 2/26/19 2:55 PM, Gidon Gershinsky wrote:
> An AES-GCM encryption problem, causing a glacially slow startup, had been 
> recently fixed in Java 13.
> https://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk/jdk/rev/f35a8aaabcb9
> 
> The fix has also been backported to Java 12 and Oracle Java 11.
> https://bugs.java.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=JDK-8201633
> 
> Can it also be backported to OpenJDK Java 11? This is a very significant 
> performance problem, that needs to be fixed in order for AES-GCM (one of 
> the main encryption modes today) to be really workable in Java 11.

It is on the list to backport to 11.0.4:
  https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/issues/?filter=36409

Once 11.0.4 opens, we can start backporting these. You are welcome to do it :)

-Aleksey