6995421: Eliminate the static dependency to sun.security.ec.ECKeyFactory
Stephen Flores
stephen.flores at oracle.com
Tue Jul 31 23:20:48 UTC 2012
Vincent,
I forgot that there is no longer a need to duplicate the ECKeyFactory
class in rt.jar.
Can you take a quick look at webrev-2 that has the makefile changes that
eliminate the duplication?
Thanks,
Steve.
On 07/25/2012 11:22 AM, Vincent Ryan wrote:
> Hello Stephen,
>
> Your changes look good.
> Thanks.
>
>
> On 20/07/2012 21:18, Stephen Flores wrote:
>> Please review the following webrev:
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sflores/6995421/
>>
>> for bug: 6995421 Eliminate the static dependency to
>> sun.security.ec.ECKeyFactory
>>
>> Description of the problem:
>>
>> sun.security.x509.AlgorithmId and sun.security.pkcs11.P11ECKeyFactory
>> depend on an public static fields sun.security.ec.ECKeyFactory
>>
>> Also, while debuging I found that ECPublicKeyImpl did not check for
>> missing domain parameters while parsing a key, the way ECPrivateKeyImpl
>> does.
>>
>> Evaluation:
>>
>> At the time of development of AlgorithmId there was no public provider
>> for EC Key Factory, a public provider has been added since.
>>
>> Description of fix:
>>
>> Since code in sun.security.x509.AlgorithmId the used the provider in
>> ECKeyFactory was removed since the call to the public API now provides
>> EC AlgorithmParameters.
>>
>> sun.security.pkcs11.P11ECKeyFactory was changed to use public KeyFactory
>> API to get a key factory.
>>
>> Additional changes:
>>
>> A null check of the alorithm parameters was added to
>> ECPublicKey.parseKeyBits.
>>
>> The internal provider in ECKeyFactory has been removed and it entries
>> move to the SunEC provider class and any references to it have been
>> changed to use the public provider API.
>>
>> Changed the TestEC to the the public API to get the SunEC provider the
>> way applications would.
>>
>> The PKCS11 test methods that are shared TestEC were changed not to
>> delete the provider given to them, which did not matter in the past
>> since internal provider in ECKeyFactory was being used by EC classes.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Steve.
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