[HARMONY-3939] [classlib][security] Security providers are initialized on first request

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Cannot Reproduce
• Component/s: Classlib
• Environment: Windows/ia32
• Assignee: Tim Ellison
• Reporter: Roman S. Bushmanov
• Created: 23/May/07 11:01
• Updated: 30/Oct/07 15:15
• Resolved: 30/Oct/07 15:15

Description

Security providers can be initialized correctly only by trusted code i.e. application working w/out security manager or application with certain security permission granted.

At the same time, JavaTM Cryptography Architecture API Specification & Reference requires the code to be trusted only for dynamic registration of provoders and no security permissions are required to install a provider by means of java.security file.

To reproduce the problem please run two simple testcases on the same JRE. These two testcases differs in one line which ilstalls a security manager and expected output is the same.

'Test' testcase produces on svn = r537794, (May 14 2007), Windows/ia32/msvc 1310, release build the following output:

DSA

while 'Test1' prints the following

java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException: AlgorithmParameters DSA implementation not found
at org.apache.harmony.security.fortress.Engine.getInstance(Engine.java:111)
at java.security.AlgorithmParameters.getInstance(AlgorithmParameters.java:90)
at Test1.main(Test1.java:9)

On RI both testcases prints the same:
DSA

Affected tests:
functional/org/apache/harmony/test/func/api/java/security/F_AlgorithmParametersTest_01/F_AlgorithmParametersTest_01.xml
(see HARMONY-3528)

Issue Links

• blocks: HARMONY-4107 [M2] umbrella task for 98% pass rate of Functional test suite - HARMONY-3528; no regression since M1
• is related to: HARMONY-2910 [classlib][security] Harmony cannot identify 'codeBase' feature in policy file