[security-dev 01138]: Re: 6840752: Provide out-of-the-box support for ECC algorithms

[Andrew John Hughes]

2009/8/28 Max (Weijun) Wang <Weijun.Wang at sun.com>:
>
> 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.
>

It's not mine, and I was merely referencing that as to why using NSS
for ECC in the end was a good thing.

> Thanks
> Max
>
>>
>> Thanks,
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