# Re: java.security.Identity is biased towards PublicKey

Li Gong (gong@games.eng.sun.com)
Mon, 15 Jun 1998 16:42:34 -0700

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    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

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