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

Bradford Wetmore wetmore at openjdk.java.net
Sun Mar 28 06:10:45 UTC 2021


On Sun, 28 Mar 2021 06:07:39 GMT, Bradford Wetmore <wetmore at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> 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).
>
> Marked as reviewed by wetmore (Reviewer).

Same comment for the bug report itself.

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


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