New JEP Draft: "Open-Source the Root Certificates"

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Wed Nov 22 13:39:55 UTC 2017


On 22/11/2017 13:23, Sean Mullan wrote:
> Please review a new JEP Draft titled "Open-Source the Root 
> Certificates". The JDK source code currently contains an empty cacerts 
> keystore, which prevents security components such as TLS from working 
> out-of-the-box on OpenJDK builds.
>
> The goal of this JEP is to provide a default set of root certificates 
> in the JDK, in order to reduce the differences between the OpenJDK and 
> Oracle JDK builds.
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mullan/jeps/8191486.html
It can be served up as a JEP draft too:
    http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/8191486

-Alan




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