[7u12] Request for approval for CR 7201205 - Add Makefile configuration option to build with unlimited crypto in OpenJDK

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> Approved.
> 
> On Oct 30, 2012, at 11:21 PM, Brad Wetmore
> <bradford.wetmore at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> > Codereview approved.  It's a direct backport of the JDK8 code.
> > 
> > Brad
> > 
> > 
> > On 10/30/2012 1:59 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> >> Bug: http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7201205
> >> OpenJDK8 changeset:
> >> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/jdk/rev/9e879c0288c2
> >> Review thread for 8:
> >> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/security-dev/2012-September/005569.html
> >> 
> >> This patch allows OpenJDK builds to use the unlimited policy if
> >> UNLIMITED_CRYPTO is set.
> >> If UNLIMITED_CRYPTO is not set, the build remains the same as
> >> before.
> >> 
> >> This patch obsoletes the more extensive crypto patch carried by
> >> IcedTea6&7 which removed
> >> several classes in order to remove the need to have policy files
> >> at all.  This patch is
> >> essentially a compromise between that, which obviously couldn't go
> >> upstream, and the need
> >> to ship without cryptography restrictions on GNU/Linux
> >> distributions.
> >> 
> >> The changeset from 8 applies cleanly to 7u.
> >> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~andrew/7201205/webrev.01/
> >> 
> 
> 

Done: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u-dev/jdk/rev/53fc48ac178f
-- 
Andrew :)

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Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)

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