OpenJDK Security Development

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The term "Security" has broad meanings and interpretations. It spans a wide range of areas, including cryptography, public key infrastructure, secure communication, authentication, and access control. The security component thus comprises a large set of APIs, tools, and implementations of commonly-used security algorithms and protocols.

As security concepts such as permissions are tightly interwoven throughout the entire Java source code, these component pages do not address issues in the other primary component areas (language features and virtual machine implementations, core libraries, graphics subsystems, hotspot, serviceability, etc). For a more detailed treatment, please see the corresponding component pages.

The primary emphasis of these pages is to explore the core security components source bases, and hopefully, get developers up to speed quickly.