RFR 8182999: SunEC throws ProviderException on invalid curves

[Adam Petcher]

On 7/10/2017 1:55 PM, Michael StJohns wrote:

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> What I'm mostly trying to get at here is to decouple  or remove the 
> list of curves in ecdecode.c in favor of the list in the java stuff 
> (CurveDB.java) (or elsewhere).   The C code should mostly only have to 
> deal with the math and not the housekeeping.
>

I agree that this would be a nice improvement, but I still think it is 
outside of scope of this fix. What you propose is a significant 
reorganization of the ECC code, and I don't think we should do that as 
part of a bug fix. It should be considered as a standalone refactoring 
effort, or maybe done as part of the next enhancement that adds support 
for new curves.

> Mike
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