Code review request, 7106773: 512 bits RSA key cannot work withSHA384 and SHA512

Weijun Wang weijun.wang at oracle.com
Wed Jan 11 10:42:52 UTC 2012



On 01/11/2012 06:02 PM, Xuelei Fan wrote:
> On 1/11/2012 5:50 PM, Weijun Wang wrote:
>> Hi Andrew
>>
>> Take a brief look at the webrev. Looks like this Lengthable thing is the
>> only change after your previous webrev. Please confirm.
>>
> Yes.
> 
>> But I want something bigger. I would like to know if it is possible to
>> add this keysize() method deep down into the very basic Key interface.
>> If Key can have a method called getEncoded() I think this means it
>> normally has a concrete form and surely has a publicly acceptable
>> keysize() attribute. In JDK 8 we have default implementation for new
>> interface methods. Is this issue a good candidate?
>>
> As Key is an java interface, we may not be able to add one more method
> for compatibility reason. We may export the "Lengthable"/"Measurable"
> interface in JDK 8. It's possible to implement Lengthable in all
> sub-classes of Key in Oracle provider, but as would involve too many
> changes. As we need to backport this fix into JDK 7, I think we'd better
> consider the big picture in the future.

Then I think the previous webrev is enough for JDK 7, and for JDK 8, we
simply add a new keysize() method to Key.

Max

> 
>> At least, in KeyLength::getKeySize(), I would like to see "if (key
>> instanceof Lengthable)" to be the first check, and, if possible, the
>> only one needed, at least for keys from providers built in JDK.
>>
> It's OK to check it at first. But as we also need to support other
> providers, I think we'd better also check other types of instance.
> 
> Thanks,
> Xuelei
> 
>> Thanks
>> Max
>>
>>
>> On 01/11/2012 08:57 AM, Xuelei Fan wrote:
>>> "Measurable" looks like a better name. I will update the name in the
>>> next webrev after this round of code review:
>>>
>>> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~xuelei/7106773/webrev.04/
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Xuelei
>>>
>>> On 1/10/2012 11:47 PM, Vincent Ryan wrote:
>>>> On 01/10/12 03:19 PM, Xuelei Fan wrote:
>>>>> On 1/10/2012 11:09 PM, Weijun Wang wrote:
>>>>>> It's late night and I'll read it tomorrow. But can you choose another
>>>>>> word instead of Lengthable? Length is not a verb.
>>>>>>
>>>>> ;-) The name took me a lot of time, searching by google, dictionary, and
>>>>> any possible English translation. I have to agree that I failed to find
>>>>> a suitable name. I tried hardly to persuade myself that "lengthable" is
>>>>> also used by someother application code, so it might not too bad to use
>>>>> it here.
>>>>>
>>>>> With the word "lengthable", I want to express that the length is
>>>>> measurable. Any suggestion for the better one?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Measurable ;-)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Xuelei
>>>>>
>>>>>> Max
>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>> 发件人: Xuelei Fan
>>>>>> 发送时间: 2012/1/10 22:51
>>>>>> 收件人: Weijun Wang
>>>>>> 抄送: OpenJDK
>>>>>> 主题: Re: Code review request, 7106773: 512 bits RSA key cannot work
>>>>>> withSHA384 and SHA512
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It has been around 50 days passed since the last day we talked about the
>>>>>> issue. Hope you can recall it from the deep memory. ;-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> webrev: http://javaweb.us.oracle.com/~xufan/bugbios/7106773/webrev.04/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In this update, as we agreed, a new Oracle private interface was
>>>>>> introduced: sun.security.util.Lengthable, and Lengthable.length() is
>>>>>> defined to get the length an object. sun.security.pkcs11.P11Key and
>>>>>> sun.security.mscapi.Key will implements the interface. As will easy and
>>>>>> speedup (comparing with reflection approach) the getting of key length
>>>>>> of those unextractable keys in hardware device.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In the webrev, I should also include another two signed jars,
>>>>>> sunpkcs11.jar and sunmscapi.jar. I will include them when I get the
>>>>>> official signed jars.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Xuelei
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 11/22/2011 8:41 AM, Weijun Wang wrote:
>>>>>>> I really like this one.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>> Max
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 11/21/2011 08:05 PM, Xuelei Fan wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>    How about this approach? This looks very safe.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I also prefer this approach, although it need more updates in PKCS11 and
>>>>>>>> MSCPI source code. If you vote for this approach, I will try to
>>>>>>>> implement it.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
> 



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