Yeah - Looks suspiciously like "security by obfuscation" to me. Roger
On Tue, 2014-10-28 at 08:41 +0100, Rob van der Heij wrote: > Hej Roger, du er velkommen! > > I've made the association between Java and kids before, seeing the desire > with developers to build a huge stack of all their toys and then climb on > top of it. The result is not necessarily more complicated but it gets > tedious and fragile. > > Went through all this java.security stuff for my performance experiments. > It really helps to understand how it works, rather than just try the first > 3 magic spells from a Google search. Even the term "unrestricted" is > ambigious and took me a while to realize it meant the opposite... > > Rob > > On 28 October 2014 08:07, roger <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thanks, Rob. You never let me down. > > > > Looking at this documentation for Java security, I feel like the kid in > > the barn yard - digging through the muck. With all this manure, > > there's gotta be a pony somewhere. > > > > Roger > > > > > > On Fri, 2014-10-24 at 15:57 +0200, Rob van der Heij wrote: > > > > > The unrestricted policy files (ie not limited to short keys) are at > > > http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/security/index.html and > > > instructions are here: > > > > > http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/lmt/v7r2m2/topic/com.ibm.license.mgmt.security.doc/lmt_scr_downloading_installing_jce_policyfiles.html > > > > > > On 24 October 2014 15:53, roger <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > I have a requirement for "strong security" and have been told to > > install > > > > the Java security policy files which can be downloaded here from > > Oracle: > > > > > > > > > > http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jce-7-download-432124.html > > > > > > > > In the downloaded zip file, there is a nice README which tells exactly > > > > what to do for Oracle's java. > > > > > > > > Does anybody know where the corresponding files are for IBMs JDK? > > > > Specifically java-1.7.0 on Suse 11.2. I see that the "which" links for > > > > the jce directory refer to a "..../jce/vanilla" directory. > > > > Somehow I don't think 'vanilla' is good enough. But who knows? > > > > > > > > Roger > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Roger Evans, Vitec Autodata Norge A/S mob: +47 93 25 92 36 > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 > > or > > > > visit > > > > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > > > > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 > > or visit > > > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > > > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > > > > > > -- > > Roger Evans, Vitec Autodata Norge A/S mob: +47 93 25 92 36 > > http://www.autodata.no > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > > visit > > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ -- Roger Evans, Vitec Autodata Norge A/S mob: +47 93 25 92 36 http://www.autodata.no ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
