RFR 8171277: Elliptic Curves for Security in Crypto

[Sean Mullan]

On 3/9/18 8:25 AM, Adam Petcher wrote:
> New webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~apetcher/8171277/webrev.01/
> 

>> I think somewhere there should be a sentence or two on the difference 
>> between XECKeys and ECKeys and when you would want to use each. This 
>> is important enough that I think some detail should be in the javadoc 
>> to help users distinguish them. Perhaps put it in the XEC class 
>> description. Maybe more details can go in the JCA security guide.
> 
> I added a sentence to the comments in XECKey, but I'm not sure how much 
> we should say here. I don't know if we should get into mathematical 
> details. Take a look at the new wording and let me know if I should add 
> more information.

Looks good. I would probably also put a similar sentence in the 
XECPublicKey and XECPrivateKey classes just so it is not missed.

All other changes look good.

--Sean