[8u] Request for enhancement backport approval for CR JDK-8029661 - Support TLS v1.2 algorithm in SunPKCS11 provider

Seán Coffey sean.coffey at oracle.com
Tue Oct 23 07:07:47 UTC 2018


Martin,

this enhancement backport is approved for jdk8u-dev. Please follow up 
with an 8u review request if necessary.

regards,
Sean.


On 15/10/2018 16:25, Seán Coffey wrote:
>
> Hope to have an answer within next few days Martin!
>
> Regards,
> Sean.
> On 15/10/18 16:15, Martin Balao wrote:
>> Hi Sean,
>>
>> Any updates on this?
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Martin.-
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 6:56 PM, Seán Coffey <sean.coffey at oracle.com 
>> <mailto:sean.coffey at oracle.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Thanks for logging this request Martin. Looking into this and
>>     hope to reply shortly.
>>
>>     regards,
>>     Sean.
>>
>>
>>
>>     On 25/09/2018 10:07, Martin Balao wrote:
>>
>>         Hi,
>>
>>         I'd like to request an enhancement backport approval for
>>         JDK-8029661 [1].
>>
>>         Supporting TLS v1.2 algorithms in SunPKCS11 crypto provider
>>         would be highly
>>         beneficial for operating in a FIPS-140 environment. This is
>>         highly critical
>>         for both security and compliance reasons to many OpenJDK
>>         users; including
>>         corporations, public sector and other organizations. TLS 1.2
>>         is currently
>>         the most wide-spread TLS version.
>>
>>         Changes done as part of this enhancement are constrained to
>>         SunPKCS11
>>         crypto provider and do not affect SSL/TLS code. Risk involved
>>         is low mainly
>>         because of the following reasons: 1) this enhancement is an
>>         extension on
>>         top of currently supported mechanisms (no major refactorings
>>         were applied);
>>         and, 2) backport is straight forward because affected code
>>         has not suffered
>>         major changes since JDK 8 release.
>>
>>         JDK-8029661 has been reviewed by Valerie Peng on security-dev
>>         list [2] and
>>         has been merged to JDK [3] base line. Regression testing on
>>         sun/security/pkcs11 category experienced no regressions
>>         because of this
>>         enhancement on both JDK base line and JDK 8.
>>
>>         JDK 8 backport webrev:
>>
>>           * http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mbalao/webrevs/8029661/
>>         <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Embalao/webrevs/8029661/>
>>         8029661.webrev.10.jdk8u/
>>           * http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mbalao/webrevs/8029661/
>>         <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Embalao/webrevs/8029661/>
>>         8029661.webrev.10.jdk8u.zip
>>
>>         Please note that this backport includes JDK-8210912 fix [4].
>>
>>         Thanks,
>>         Martin.-
>>
>>         --
>>         [1] - https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8029661
>>         <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8029661>
>>         [2] - http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/security-dev/
>>         <http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/security-dev/>
>>         2018-September/018278.html
>>         [3] - http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk/jdk/rev/bccd9966f1ed
>>         <http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk/jdk/rev/bccd9966f1ed>
>>         [4] - https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8210912
>>         <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8210912>
>>
>>
>>
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