On 9/16/07, Venkata Krishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> The axis2 ws binding has an itest that exercises the 'confidentialy policy
> intent' which is realized by encrypting the parts of the soap xml.  Though
> we are just about using Rampart, WSS4J, under the covers there seems to be
> bouncycastle's classes doing the work.  In the past there had been some
> discussions on some patents that are included in some of the algos (IDEA)
> in
> bouncycastle, which SimonLaws thankfully pointed out.
>
> With the Release 1.0 preparations underway I had sought to clear up the
> legal implications on 'general' list (
> http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg15109.html)
> and
> to me its seems like it would take a while to arrive on a way out.
>
> Given the fact that we are targeting this week for our release I'd like to
> exclude bouncycastle from our release distros.  This means the following
> in
> the binding-ws-axis2 module : -
> - exclusion of bouncycastle downstream dependency from rampart.mar
> - exclusion of the unit test that exercises the 'confidentiality' intent (
>
> org.apache.tuscany.sca.binding.ws.axis2.itests.policy.WSSecurityConfidentialityTestCase
> )
>
> However, users wishing to try out the'confidentiality' intent can do so by
> directly downloading bouncycastle-bcprov-jdk15-* jars themselves and
> setting
> it  into the classpath.
>
> I have made these changes to the Rel 1.0 branch.
>
> I will also go and update this information in the ReleaseNotes and FAQ.
>
> Thanks
>
> - Venkat
>

That seems like a good approach for now, thanks for sorting it out.

   ...ant

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