[7u4] Request for approval for CR 7088989 - Improve the performance for T4 by utilizing the newly provided crypto APIs

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> 
> On 03/15/12 16:29, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> >>> 2.  Was there a reason the testcases in this commit were locked
> >>> down
> >>> to only work with the proprietary ucrypto provider?  Are they not
> >>> suitable for all providers?
> >>> They would be very useful for testing the SunPKCS11/NSS provider.
> >> That's a question better suited for the security-dev at openjdk list.
> >>
> > CCed.  As I said, I would have posted here first, if there had been
> > a public review
> > of the patch to begin with.  There wasn't.
> The tests can be adapted to The testcases can be adapted to test
> other
> providers. But since they are meant for Ucrypto provider, I coded
> them
> to explicitly test against Ucrypto provider. Well, I thought some
> people
> may want to run these tests if their build (or JDK releases) contains
> Ucrypto provider. If build doesn't have Ucrypto provider, the tests
> will
> silently pass, not affecting the overall result.
> 
> Let me apologize again for accidentally broke the 7u putback
> guideline.
> Majority of the changes are under the closed part of JDK, thus it
> didn't
> occur to me that I have to separate out the part that went into
> OpenJDK
> for a public review. Learned the lesson the hard way as you aren't
> the
> only one pointing this out.

Thanks for the apology.  It is much appreciated.  We all make mistakes :-)

And no, the last thing I want is to remove the tests.  I'll submit a patch
to generalise them to work with other providers.

> Regards,
> Valerie
> 
> >
> > I noticed you don't seem to have commented on how this breaks the
> > jdk7u guidelines.
> >
> >> cheers,
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Andrew :)

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