[9] RFR 8157495: SHA-3 Hash algorithm performance improvements (~12x speedup)

[Anthony Scarpino]

On 06/08/2016 12:49 PM, ecki at zusammenkunft.net wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would not mix performance and policy commits, but maybe those changes are related to the same task?
>
> What about Group.HmacSHA2:SunJCE is that needed as well? BTW the preferences are only set for Solaris, why are there no preferences on the other platforms shipped? (Or rather, why are there overwrites on Solaris)
>
> Gruss
> Bernd
>

Solaris's security.providers list has a different default than other OS 
releases with OracleUcrypto and SunPKCS11-Solaris at the top.  The other 
OSes have SunJCE higher in the priority list.  If you want to look at it 
more, it's in the Preferred Provider changes in JEP 246.

Tony