jdk14 patchset 4-pre1

[Greg Lewis]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 05:16:38PM +0300, Panagiotis Astithas wrote:
> since I will be making a test build of the 4-pre1 patchset, I will grab 
> the opportunity to ask about the Sun-provided SCSL security stuff.
> 
> When I get to the page to download the sources, besides the usual
> j2sdk-1_4_1-src-scsl.zip, I can download another file, called 
> j2sdk-sec-1_4_1-src-scsl.zip. The latter contains cryptographic code, 
> but I am puzzled about its purpose. For all I can say, this contains 
> source code for classes that are built with the port anyway, but perhaps 
> this other bundle has some benefits, such as stronger encryption? If 
> this is so, how could we include it in the build? The bundle contains 
> only java files, plus a Windows C file, that I believe we can ignore. 
> Also, will the final binary release of 1.4.1 contain these cryptography 
> extensions, or the current ones?

As I understand it, these are the source files for the bundled
crytographic JARs, in case you want to compile them yourself.  I don't
believe the source code provides anything the bundled versions don't.

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