Re: New switch suggestion for keytool

2014-12-15 Thread Wang Weijun
> On Dec 16, 2014, at 04:19, Matthew Hall wrote: > > It's really useful for things like bootstrapping keystores for symmetric keys. For a program? It's super easy for a program to create an empty keystore. > > Many StackOverflows exist of people doing it manually to "work around" this > limi

Re: RFR: 8048603: Additional tests for MAC algorithms

2014-12-15 Thread Valerie Peng
Artem, Here are my comments: 1) Three tests under com/sun/crypto/provider directory do not specify a provider when calling Mac.getInstance(). Since they are under the regression tests directory for SunJCE, perhaps we should specify SunJCE provider to be used. 2) 'ALGORITHMS' seems redundant f

Re: New switch suggestion for keytool

2014-12-15 Thread Matthew Hall
It's really useful for things like bootstrapping keystores for symmetric keys. Many StackOverflows exist of people doing it manually to "work around" this limitation. I've done it myself especially when working on an identity management appliance. Matthew. On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 09:54:53AM +

Re: [9] request for review 8044445: Create PKCS12 Keystores by Default

2014-12-15 Thread Vincent Ryan
One further update: introduced a new security property to explicitly disable compatibility mode for JKS and PKCS12 keystores. By default, compatibility mode is enabled for JKS and PKCS12 to aid applications that expect the previous default keystore type (JKS). http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~vinnie