Ahh, I did not understand what you meant by "how they relate." No, in the true sense of the word, no one need actually "hack" the VM source to secure NIO (which is the transport layer by the way :-) ), but something need be done to the data prior to writing the ByteBuffers to channel. That something should also be fast and unbreakable. That was all I was implying.

Thanks for the link.