RFR: 8279801: EC KeyFactory and KeyPairGenerator do not have aliases for OID format

Thu Jan 13 00:46:28 UTC 2022

On Wed, 12 Jan 2022 21:22:34 GMT, Valerie Peng <valeriep at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> src/jdk.crypto.ec/share/classes/sun/security/ec/SunEC.java line 322:
>> 
>>> 320:          */
>>> 321:         putService(new ProviderServiceA(this, "KeyPairGenerator",
>>> 322:             "EC", "sun.security.ec.ECKeyPairGenerator", ATTRS));
>> 
>> How about the EllipticCurve alias? Are we dropping it?
>
> Hmm, I searched various security docs such as SunEC provider and standard names, there is no mentioning of EllipticCurve alias. So probably ok to drop it.

Er, maybe I can add it into KnownOIDs? `EC("1.2.840.10045.2.1", "EC", "EllipticCurve")`.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/7036