RFR: JDK-8176503: Disable SHA-1 TLS Server Certificates

Sean Mullan sean.mullan at oracle.com
Mon Mar 13 14:57:14 UTC 2017


Please review this configuration change to disable SHA-1 TLS server 
certificates by default in JDK 9. In order to be disabled, the 
certificates must chain back to trusted root certificate in the cacerts 
keystore that has a " [jdk]" attribute appended to their alias name.

--Sean

diff --git a/src/java.base/share/conf/security/java.security 
b/src/java.base/share/conf/security/java.security
--- a/src/java.base/share/conf/security/java.security
+++ b/src/java.base/share/conf/security/java.security
@@ -598,8 +598,8 @@
  #   jdk.certpath.disabledAlgorithms=MD2, DSA, RSA keySize < 2048
  #
  #
-jdk.certpath.disabledAlgorithms=MD2, MD5, RSA keySize < 1024, \
-    DSA keySize < 1024, EC keySize < 224
+jdk.certpath.disabledAlgorithms=MD2, MD5, SHA1 jdkCA & usage TLSServer, \
+    RSA keySize < 1024, DSA keySize < 1024, EC keySize < 224

  #
  # Algorithm restrictions for signed JAR files



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