Cryptix/java.security

Jonathan S. Shapiro shap@eros.cis.upenn.edu
Tue, 29 Sep 1998 16:52:30 -0400


> I believe the changes to use Cryptix instead of java.security should be
> somewhere between trivial and easy.  (It depends on how similar the Cryptix
> API is to the java.security API.)

Regrettably, the cryptix API is essentially unrelated to the
java.security API.

> As I told MarkM at lunch, I am reluctant to make the change for EC's
> version at this point in the product cycle.  I have no problem making it in
> the erights version and then folding it back to the EC version after ECID
> ships.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it in the ECID release if it's on a short 
fuse.  MarkM and I were trying to ensure that E would go up without
complication on Linux boxes.



shap