Java crypto

[Greg Lewis]

Hi Alex,

On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 11:24:17PM +0200, Alex Dupre wrote:
> Greg Lewis ha scritto:
> > Thanks for asking about this.  Upon taking a quick look, I don't think
> > there is any particular reason.  My guess is that simply noone noticed we
> > weren't building it.  This isn't surprising given that it looks to me
> > like its not built on Solaris/Linux/Windows either, its simply extracted
> > from a zip file.  It also looks like the source code is also zipped up,
> > which makes it harder to notice its even there.
> 
> Yes, I supposed it. The jar file cannot be built from sources, since
> must be signed, so I think Sun chose to distribute even the jni shared
> object in binary form for "supported" platforms. The source distribution
> doesn't automatically build it, but native binary distributions install
> it and it's supposed to be in jdk 1.5.
> I don't know which is the best way to go, but probably the easiest is to
> create a new port that builds the jni lib and installs it along with the
> signed jar (I think modifying the jdk15 and diablo ports will be more
> complex, even if more natural from a user's point of view).

I think we can add it to jdk15 quite easily, although adding it to diablo
is going to have to wait for another update.  I'd like to try that first,
since I don't think it will be too problematic.  I think many people will
miss a separate port, so I'd like to keep them all together if possible.
I'll let you know how that goes.

> >> Second thing: it could be useful to have a knob in all jdk ports to 
> >> install the unrestricted security policy files, so that every update 
> >> won't replace them.
> > 
> > I'd be happy to review patches :).
> 
> I will prepare them asap.

Thanks!

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