RFR: 8264329: Z cannot be 1 for Diffie-Hellman key agreement

Xue-Lei Andrew Fan xuelei at openjdk.java.net
Sun Mar 28 04:16:19 UTC 2021


Per NIST SP 800-56A Rev 3 (section 5.7.1), the shared secret cannot be 1 or (p - 1).  This update adds this validation in the JDK provider implementation.

No new regression test, simple update and hard to construct a shared secret of 1 or (p - 1).

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Commit messages:
 - 8264329: Z cannot be 1 for Diffie-Hellman key agreement

Changes: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/3232/files
 Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.java.net/?repo=jdk&pr=3232&range=00
  Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8264329
  Stats: 10 lines in 1 file changed: 8 ins; 0 del; 2 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/3232.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk pull/3232/head:pull/3232

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/3232



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