Re: [Tails-dev] [review'n'merge:1.1.1] bugfix/7807-remove-du…

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Assumpte: Re: [Tails-dev] [review'n'merge:1.1.1] bugfix/7807-remove-duplicate-openjdk-jre
On 08/26/2014 07:44 PM, Kill Your TV wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Aug 2014 17:31:30 +0000 (UTC) intrigeri
> <intrigeri@???> wrote:
>> str4d wrote (26 Aug 2014 10:32:14 GMT) :
>>> As I recall, there are several I2P "bugs" that only occur on
>>> OpenJDK v6 (not Oracle JRE 6), and are solved by running
>>> OpenJDK v7.
>>
>> Any pointer to these bugs, so that we can evaluate how serious
>> they are?
>
> There are bugs in Java 6 that I2P has been able to trigger that we
> don't see in Java 7, but unfortunately I can't point to anything
> off the top of my head, but perhaps str4d could shed some light on
> it.


As with all "bugs" there is little concrete evidence, only anecdotal:

http://zzz.i2p/topics/1276?page=1#p5665
http://zzz.i2p/topics/1150?page=1#p4660
http://zzz.i2p/topics/1442?page=1#p7135

There are also issues with the way NIO is implemented in OpenJDK v6
(used by our NTCP transport) that are fixed in v7.

str4d

>
> I can say that Java 7 prefers stronger cipher suites than Java 6,
> though this would only be of importance when bootstrapping.
>
> See
> https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/viewClient.html?name=Java&version=6u45
>
>

&
> https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/viewClient.html?name=Java&version=7u25
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>
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