April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
910 pages
33h 21m
English
In this chapter, we looked at several small, but significant changes to the JDK that involve security. The featured security enhancements that are part of the Java 9 platform provide developers with the distinct ability to write and maintain applications that implement security. Specifically, we covered DTLS, keystores, improving security application performance, the TLS application-layer protocol negotiation extension, leveraging CPU instructions for GHASH and RSA, OCSP stapling for TLS, and DRBG-based SecureRandom implementations.
In the next chapter we will explore the new command-line flags used in Java 9 as well as changes to various command-line tools. Our coverage will include managing the Java JVM run-time and compiler using ...