RFR: 8199697: FIPS 186-4 RSA Key Generation [v2]

[Valerie Peng]

On Tue, 13 Oct 2020 05:23:01 GMT, Xue-Lei Andrew Fan <xuelei at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Valerie Peng has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev
>> excludes the unrelated changes brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains two additional commits since
>> the last revision:
>>  - Merge branch 'master' into JDK-8199697
>>  - 8199697: FIPS 186-4 RSA Key Generation
>>    
>>    Changed RSA key pair generation code following the guidelines from FIPS 186-4.
>
> test/jdk/sun/security/rsa/SpecTest.java line 33:
> 
>> 31:  * @run main SpecTest 768
>> 32:  * @run main SpecTest 1024
>> 33:  * @run main SpecTest 1024 65537
> 
> 65537 is the default public exponent (see the main() method).  So, the two test case is the same:
>  * @run main SpecTest 1024
>  * @run main SpecTest 1024 65537
> 
> Maybe, we can keep the test case for F0, and add a new public exponent number like 167971.

I want to stop using F0 since it's no longer deemed valid for FIPS 186-4. For backward compatibility, we don't reject
F0, but perhaps we should stop using it so people will start shifting to use F4. I can replace 3 with 167971.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/420