Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 16:42:34 -0700
Message-Id: <199806152342.QAA07202@games.eng.sun.com>
From: Li Gong <gong@games.eng.sun.com>
To: "Vishal Goenka" <vgoenka@novell.com>
Subject: Re: java.security.Identity is biased towards PublicKey
In-Reply-To: Vishal Goenka's mail of Tue, 9 June, 1998
The Identity class in java.security is deprecated in JDK 1.2. A
separate authentication framework will handle principal,
authentication, and related issues more comprehensively. There is no
spec available yet for this work, but we are working on it. Thanks.
Li
-- Li Gong, PhD Java Security Architect and Distinguished Engineer Java Software Division, Sun Microsystems, Cupertino, California, USA Email: li.gong@sun.com and Web: http://java.sun.com/people/gong Tel: 408-343-1825 and Fax: 408-343-1993