[9] RFR: 8180307: Add new JDK 9 Required Algorithms to Cipher class

Valerie Peng valerie.peng at oracle.com
Fri May 12 23:03:43 UTC 2017


GCM mode does not need padding, so the required algorithm should just be 
AES/GCM/NoPadding only.

Valerie


On 5/12/2017 10:59 AM, Sean Mullan wrote:
> A couple of new required algorithms for JDK 9 were accidentally 
> omitted for the Cipher class as part of JDK-8015388. Docs only change.
>
> diff --git a/src/java.base/share/classes/javax/crypto/Cipher.java 
> b/src/java.base/share/classes/javax/crypto/Cipher.java
> --- a/src/java.base/share/classes/javax/crypto/Cipher.java
> +++ b/src/java.base/share/classes/javax/crypto/Cipher.java
> @@ -137,6 +137,8 @@
>   * <li>{@code AES/CBC/PKCS5Padding} (128)</li>
>   * <li>{@code AES/ECB/NoPadding} (128)</li>
>   * <li>{@code AES/ECB/PKCS5Padding} (128)</li>
> + * <li>{@code AES/GCM/NoPadding} (128)</li>
> + * <li>{@code AES/GCM/PKCS5Padding} (128)</li>
>   * <li>{@code DES/CBC/NoPadding} (56)</li>
>   * <li>{@code DES/CBC/PKCS5Padding} (56)</li>
>   * <li>{@code DES/ECB/NoPadding} (56)</li>
>
> Thanks,
> Sean




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