RFR: 8302017: Allocate BadPaddingException only if it will be thrown [v3]

[Valerie Peng]

On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 05:29:41 GMT, Xue-Lei Andrew Fan <xuelei at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Max is on vacation and may not see your question for a while...
>> IIRC, the inconsistency (NULL vs omission) goes way back. As time goes on, this may no longer be an issue as spec is clarified and vendors update their implementation.
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> I checked back the specification back to RFC 2437, released on October 1998, which requires to encode NULL parameters as well.  As the update to keep the consistency is not trivial, I may just remove it and see if it could be a real problem in practice.

Yes, let's try it and see.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14839#discussion_r1276793982