On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 09:58:42 GMT, Eirik Bjørsnøs <eir...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> Please review this cleanup PR which removes the protected, deprecated field 
> `X509Key.key` in the internal package `sun.security.x509`.
> 
> This field and the associated field `unusedBits` have been marked 
> `@Deprecated` since the initial load. The recommended replacement is to use 
> the `BitArray` representation, which does not require keys to be byte-aligned.
> 
> Two use sites of the `key` field were found in subclasses:
> 
> * The `ECPublicKeyImpl` constructor was updated to use a `BitArray` instead.
> * `ECPublicKeyImpl.parseKeyBits()` was updated to call 
> `getKey().toByteArray()` to produce the byte array.
> 
> Somewhat unrelated, the method `ECPublicKeyImpl.getEncodedPublicValue()` was 
> deemed unused and has been removed.
> 
> Testing and verification: This PR does not update any tests. GHA runs green.

This looks good to me - thanks for the cleanup.

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Marked as reviewed by mullan (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/18185#pullrequestreview-1966577694

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