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Martin Balao mbalao at redhat.com
Thu Feb 1 19:25:05 UTC 2018


Hi Tomas,

As Andrew said, I've been working on some SunPKCS11 improvements related to
native memory leaking. You can find details of this work here [1]. Feedback
is always welcomed.

What do you mean with "more flexibility"?

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[1] -
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/security-dev/2017-October/016400.html

On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 8:06 AM, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 24/01/18 10:39, Tomas Gustavsson wrote:
> > Imho the P11 layer always needs attention. To work properly we're
> > relying on some patches, where parts was recently merged into OpenJDK.
> > We just started testing the Amazon CloudHSM, and that requires changes
> > to SunPKCS11 as well to work. Not always bad in SunPKCS11 as some P11
> > libraries out there do strange non-conforming stuff, but there's room
> > for more flexibility nevertheless.
>
> Martin Balao has been heavily reworking this layer because it leaks
> native memory.  I'll let him fill you in on the details.
>
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> Andrew Haley
> Java Platform Lead Engineer
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