Asking for a name change in sun.security.provider.certpath.BasicChecker

Sean Mullan sean.mullan at oracle.com
Fri Jan 13 13:28:41 UTC 2017


On 1/13/17 4:09 AM, Weijun Wang wrote:
> This class has a method called verifyTimestamp() but it's actually about
> the validity period fields in a certificate. I found it quite misleading
> because whenever I see timestamp I think of TSA and RFC 3161.
>
> Are you OK with changing all occurrences of "timestamp" to "validity"?
> This includes the title in the exception message.

Yes.

--Sean



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