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Re: no surprise - Sun fails to open source the crypto part of Java

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Sat May 12 14:28:32 2007

From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Ian G <iang@systemics.com>
Cc: Cryptography <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 18:46:38 +0200
In-Reply-To: <464480E7.4040206@systemics.com> (Ian G.'s message of "Fri, 11
	May 2007 16:42:47 +0200")

* Ian G.:

> Does anyone know what Sun failed to opensource in the crypto part of
> Java?

The Sun JCE provider appears to be missing, which means that few
cryptographic algorithms are actually implemented in the source drop.
All the symmetric encryption algorithms are missing, for instance.

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