Conceptual feedback on new ECC JEP

[Adam Petcher]

On 9/11/2018 11:07 AM, Adam Petcher wrote:

>
> I still haven't been convinced that this lack of interoperability is a 
> significant problem. In the proposed design, the new KeyFactory will 
> not support ECPrivateKeySpec, and the implementation will produce 
> private keys that inherit from PrivateKey, but not ECPrivateKey. 
> Specifically, what problems in JCE are introduced by this design? How 
> are these interoperability issues different from the ones you 
> encounter with a PKCS11 provider that doesn't export private keys? If 
> the developer wants more interoperability, why not use SunEC? If we 
> decide that we want the new implementation to have better 
> interoperability in the future, does something prevent us from 
> enhancing it? These questions are for anyone who can help me 
> understand the objections that have been raised related to 
> interoperability.

A week has passed since I asked these questions to the mailing list, and 
I haven't gotten any answers. Without additional information, I'm not 
motivated to change the interoperability goals in the draft JEP.