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

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Wed Nov 22 14:17:28 UTC 2017


Thanks, Sean - this is a great step forward!

On 22.11.2017 14:23, 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
> 
> Thanks,
> Sean

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