RFR CSR for 8162628: Migrating cacerts keystore to password-less PKCS12 format

[Weijun Wang]

Well, at least "almost everyone". The "everyone" sounds contradict with those "existing applications that uses the hardcoded password".

--Max

> On May 31, 2019, at 5:43 PM, Weijun Wang <weijun.wang at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> It's not easy to find out the word difference after a CSR edit.
> 
> But you changed
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> everyone (yes, everyone) has been loading cacerts with a null password and they are able to read all certificate inside.
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> to
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> everyone (yes, everyone) who loads cacerts with a null password is able to read all certificates inside.
> 
> I *did* mean that *everyone* is using the null password. Did you not?
> 
> --Max
> 
> 
>> On May 31, 2019, at 4:27 PM, Langer, Christoph <christoph.langer at sap.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Max,
>> 
>> I've already made some updates to the wording in the CSR.
>> 
>> In the specification section, it should probably also not mention the source location src/java.base/share/lib/security/cacerts as it is about to be eliminated by JDK-8193255. It should rather refer to <JDK>/lib/security/cacerts, I think.
>> 
>> Best regards
>> Christoph
>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: security-dev <security-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net> On Behalf Of
>>> Weijun Wang
>>> Sent: Freitag, 31. Mai 2019 05:33
>>> To: security-dev at openjdk.java.net
>>> Subject: RFR CSR for 8162628: Migrating cacerts keystore to password-less
>>> PKCS12 format
>>> 
>>> Please review the CSR at
>>> 
>>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8224891
>>> 
>>> (Oh, I hate the CSR having a different bug id.)
>>> 
>>> Basically, with this change, the cacerts file can be loaded with
>>> 
>>> KeyStore.getInstance("JKS" or "PKCS12").load(stream, null or anything) or
>>> KeyStore.getInstance(new File("cacerts"), null or anything)
>>> 
>>> so hopefully all your old code should still work.
>>> 
>>> I've also opened another RFE [1] that intends to find a different way to tag
>>> jdkCA entries in cacerts other than appending "[jdk]" to the alias.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Max
>>> 
>>> [1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8225099
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