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

[Jack Lloyd]

On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 04:42:47PM +0200, Ian G wrote:

> They also involve some elements of sound and cryptography, 
> said Tom Marble, Sun's OpenJDK ambassador. "We have already 
> contacted the copyright holders. We were unable to negotiate 
> release under an open-source license," Marble said.

I believe at least some versions of Java used RSADSI's JSAFE for the
low-level crypto code, which would explain why that portion of it
wasn't included.

-Jack

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