RFR: JDK-8209129 :Further improvements to cipher buffer management

Seán Coffey sean.coffey at oracle.com
Thu Aug 9 10:42:17 UTC 2018


Adding RFR to title..

On 09/08/2018 11:37, Seán Coffey wrote:
> I've been looking further at how private/temporary buffers are used in 
> cipher/keystore management and identified some more areas that could 
> benefit with a more aggressive nulling out of contents.
>
> I've been testing through use of stepping through debugging sessions 
> while setting/getting keys and capturing process memory via tooling 
> like gcore.
>
> JBS report : https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8209129
>
> webrev : 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~coffeys/webrev.8209129.v1/webrev/index.html
>
> TCK and regression tests are green.
>
> regards,
> Sean.
>




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