RFR: JDK-8311592 ECKeySizeParameterSpec causes too many exceptions on third party providers

Mon Jul 24 20:55:40 UTC 2023

On Tue, 18 Jul 2023 03:58:50 GMT, Anthony Scarpino <ascarpino at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> This fix eliminates needless exceptions each time the EC key size is obtained through AlgorithmParameters on third party providers.  These providers throw an InvalidParameterSpecException as `sun.security.util.KeyUtil.getKey()` sends an internal `sun.security.util.ECKeySizeParameterSpec`.   The exception is properly handled, but the number of exceptions becomes excessive with TLS.
> Calling ECKeySizeParameterSpec only with SunEC resolves this issue.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Tony

Marked as reviewed by valeriep (Reviewer).

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14916#pullrequestreview-1544260493