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  2. JDK-8217835

Remove the experimental SunJSSE FIPS compliant mode

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      The SunJSSE provider had a experimental feature that bound to a FIPS crypto provider. The mode could be configured with customizing the java.security provider with an extra parameter:
      - security.provider.4=com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Provider
      + security.provider.4=com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Provider SunPKCS11-NSS

      Or use the SunJSSE provider with the extra crypto provider, by
          new com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Provider(cryptoProvider);

      In JDK 9, with the update of java.security, the provider load ignore the extra parameter. With the module design in JDK 9, the private package com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl is not accessible. So neither of the above two customization works since JDK 9.

      The experimental SunJSSE FIPS compliant mode made the code complicated. If it is useless now, we may want to cleanup the code, by removing the experimental feature from the SunJSSE provider.

      The cleanup should be safe as no one actually can use it since JDK 9.

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