Code review request: 8014310: JAAS/Krb5LoginModule using des encytypes failure with NPE after JDK-8012679

[Valerie (Yu-Ching) Peng]

Changes look fine.
Just curious, what's the reason for the changes in KeyTab.java?
Valerie

On 06/07/13 00:31, Weijun Wang wrote:
> Ding dong.
>
> On 5/27/13 10:06 AM, Weijun Wang wrote:
>>
>> Please review the code changes at
>>
>>     http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~weijun/8014310/webrev.00/
>>
>> The reason is that since we set allow_weak_crypto to false, if the user
>> only had DES keys or only has DES-related etypes enabled, there will be
>> no working etype at all. Soon or later, an NPE is thrown.
>>
>> This fix includes:
>>
>> 1. Instead of returning null in Config::defaultEtype(configName), a
>> KrbException is thrown.
>>
>> 2. Removes useless if-null-then-KrbException checks.
>>
>> 3. Not related to the bug: remove sort-by-etype in
>> KeyTab::readServiceKeys(princ). It was meant to make sure a preferred
>> etype appears before another one. In fact, the order of etypes returned
>> by EType::getDefaults(configName,keys) are determined by the order of
>> Config::defaultEtype(configName) instead of keys. Therefore it's
>> actually useless. The sort-by-kvno is preserved. This does not matter
>> when the key is used to decrypt an EncryptedData structure (which knows
>> what kvno should be used). Sometime we still have to pick one with no
>> hint at all, say, creating the encrypted timestamp in preauth AS-REQ. A
>> key with higher kvno is normally more likely to be the current one.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Max