On Wed, 3 Jan 2024 16:55:39 GMT, Sean Mullan <mul...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> This enhancement simplifies and improves the performance of the Comparator 
> that the PKIX CertPathBuilder uses to sort candidate certificates.
> 
> [RFC 5280](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5280#section-4.2.1.1) requires 
> that certificates include authority and subject key identifiers to facilitate 
> cert path discovery. When the certificates comply with RFC 5280, the sorting 
> algorithm is fast and efficient. However, there may be cases where 
> certificates do not include the proper KIDs, for legacy or other reasons. 
> This enhancement targets those cases and has shown an increase in performance 
> of `CertPathBuilder.build` by up to 2x in tests involving certificates that 
> do not contain KIDs. Specific changes include:
> 
> - Removed and simplified some of the steps in `PKIXCertComparator.compare` 
> method. Some of these steps were not a good representation of common 
> certificate hierarchies and were overly expensive to perform. 
> - Several methods in `X500Name` and `Builder` have been made obsolete and 
> thus removed.
> - `X500Name` has been changed to use shared secrets instead of reflection to 
> access non-public members of `X500Principal`, and vice-versa.
> - The `CertificateBuilder` test code has been enhanced to set reasonable 
> defaults for serial number and validity fields of a certificate

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: c4845f01
Author:    Sean Mullan <mul...@openjdk.org>
URL:       
https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/c4845f01d236a006f3aefb7fa2e1a564673b7ff3
Stats:     828 lines in 8 files changed: 311 ins; 449 del; 68 mod

8317431: Implement simpler Comparator when building certification paths

Reviewed-by: kdriver, weijun

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17248

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