[security-dev 01137]: Re: 6840752: Provide out-of-the-box support for ECC algorithms

[Max (Weijun) Wang]

On Aug 28, 2009, at 9:56 AM, Andrew John Hughes wrote:

> 2009/8/28 Max (Weijun) Wang <Weijun.Wang at sun.com>:
>>
>> On Aug 27, 2009, at 9:52 PM, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>>
>>> The problem is more the fact that it's an additional copy rather  
>>> than
>>> using the system installation, which means it has to be patched for
>>> bugs and security fixes separately.  For IcedTea, I'll look at
>>> providing and using the option of using the system NSS and will also
>>> submit this for review here if there is interest in providing such  
>>> an
>>> option.
>>
>> Since Java security is already provider based, I guess you can  
>> simply write
>> one provider named NSS and remove all other security.provider.<n>  
>> lines in
>> jre/lib/security/java.security.
>>
>> Max
>>
>>
>
> Sounds like the JDK6 solution :)

No, this is the real Java solution. :)

>
> I think the simpler fix is to just provide an option for the calls to
> the native code to use the system library rather than the included
> copy (some of the new files appear to be verbatim copies of files from
> NSS AFAICS).  But I need to look at this in more detail.

This only redirects native calls to your centralized ones, but JRE  
includes a lot of pure Java providers. If they are still listed in the  
java.security file, your so called "Fedora Crypto Consolidation" is  
not 100% complete.

Thanks
Max

>
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> -- 
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