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