RFR: 8209092: Remove outdated wording from RC5ParameterSpec

Xue-Lei Andrew Fan xuelei at openjdk.java.net
Wed Jun 9 20:36:14 UTC 2021


On Wed, 9 Jun 2021 20:19:12 GMT, Jack Hartstein <github.com+44308314+jackh2000 at openjdk.org> wrote:

> The RC5ParameterSpec class description contains the following sentence: "This class can be used to initialize a Cipher object that implements the RC5 algorithm as supplied by RSA Security LLC, or any parties authorized by RSA Security."
> 
> The part "as supplied by RSA Security LLC, or any parties authorized by RSA Security." should be removed. We don't generally include information about 3rd-party JCA providers in the standard javadocs. Also the "authorized" part was probably referring to the RC5 patent but that has since expired.

The update looks good to me.  A CSR might be required as it is a spec update, although it is just a trivial update.

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Marked as reviewed by xuelei (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/4443



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