RFR: ChaCha20 and ChaCha20/Poly1305 Cipher implementations

Jamil Nimeh jamil.j.nimeh at oracle.com
Wed Apr 11 17:57:12 UTC 2018


Okay, I will check that out and fix as appropriate.  Thanks for the 
comments!

--Jamil

On 4/11/2018 10:56 AM, Thomas Lußnig wrote:
> Hi,
>
> same with key/keyBytes is with the class Poly1305 also here the key is 
> not used.
>
> Gruß Thomas
>
> On 4/11/2018 5:54 PM, Jamil Nimeh wrote:
>> Yes, that does appear to be the case, good catch!  I'll make that 
>> change.
>>
>> --Jamil
>>
>> On 4/11/2018 7:18 AM, Thomas Lußnig wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> i found another point. The "key" field can be removed from 
>>> ChaCha20Cipher.
>>> 1) This field is only set once and later checked if it was initialized.
>>>      But we do not want to knew is the key exists but if key bytes 
>>> exists.
>>> 2) So if two lines are changed from key to keyBytes we can remove 
>>> this unused field.
>>>
>>>
>>> Gruß Thomas
>>>
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jnimeh/reviews/8153028/webrev.02/src/java.base/share/classes/com/sun/crypto/provider/ChaCha20Cipher.java.html 
>>>
>>> Lines 426 , 461 (change to keyBytes)
>>>     if (key == null
>>> Line 75+507 (remove)
>>>     private Key key;
>>>     this.key = key;
>>>
>>>
>>> On 4/11/2018 12:34 AM, Jamil Nimeh wrote:
>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>>
>>>> This is a quick update to the previous webrev:
>>>>
>>>> * When using the form of engineInit that does only takes op, key 
>>>> and random, the nonce will always be random even if the random 
>>>> parameter is null.  A default instance of SecureRandom will be used 
>>>> to create the nonce in this case, instead of all zeroes.
>>>>
>>>> * Unused debug code was removed from the ChaCha20Cipher.java file
>>>>
>>>> * ChaCha20Parameters.engineToString no longer obtains the line 
>>>> separator from a System property directly.  It calls 
>>>> System.lineSeparator() similar to how other AlgorithmParameter 
>>>> classes in com.sun.crypto.provider do it.
>>>>
>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jnimeh/reviews/8153028/webrev.02/
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> --Jamil
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 03/26/2018 12:08 PM, Jamil Nimeh wrote:
>>>>> Hello all,
>>>>>
>>>>> This is a request for review for the ChaCha20 and 
>>>>> ChaCha20-Poly1305 cipher implementations.  Links to the webrev and 
>>>>> the JEP which outlines the characteristics and behavior of the 
>>>>> ciphers are listed below.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jnimeh/reviews/8153028/webrev.01/
>>>>> http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/329
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> --Jamil
>>>>
>>




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