On Thu, 7 Mar 2024 15:12:18 GMT, Sean Mullan <mul...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This enhancement simplifies and improves the performance of the Comparator 
>> that the PKIX CertPathBuilder uses to sort candidate certificates.
>> 
>> [RFC 5280](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5280#section-4.2.1.1) requires 
>> that certificates include authority and subject key identifiers to 
>> facilitate cert path discovery. When the certificates comply with RFC 5280, 
>> the sorting algorithm is fast and efficient. However, there may be cases 
>> where certificates do not include the proper KIDs, for legacy or other 
>> reasons. This enhancement targets those cases and has shown an increase in 
>> performance of `CertPathBuilder.build` by up to 2x in tests involving 
>> certificates that do not contain KIDs. Specific changes include:
>> 
>> - Removed and simplified some of the steps in `PKIXCertComparator.compare` 
>> method. Some of these steps were not a good representation of common 
>> certificate hierarchies and were overly expensive to perform. 
>> - Several methods in `X500Name` and `Builder` have been made obsolete and 
>> thus removed.
>> - `X500Name` has been changed to use shared secrets instead of reflection to 
>> access non-public members of `X500Principal`, and vice-versa.
>> - The `CertificateBuilder` test code has been enhanced to set reasonable 
>> defaults for serial number and validity fields of a certificate
>
> Sean Mullan has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a 
> merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes 
> brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains 15 additional 
> commits since the last revision:
> 
>  - Weijun's comments.
>  - Merge
>  - Fix whitespace error. Improve debugging. Change return value of 
> distanceToCommonAncestor().
>  - Add more comments. Remove unnecessary import.
>  - Fix whitespace.
>  - Update copyrights.
>  - Merge
>  - Simplify and improve performance of PKIXCertComparator.
>  - Regression test.
>  - Use shared secrets instead of reflection.
>  - ... and 5 more: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/compare/cf6239b6...20b714dd

Marked as reviewed by weijun (Reviewer).

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17248#pullrequestreview-1829985213

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