RFR: 8331008: Implement JEP 478: Key Derivation Function API (Preview) [v10]

[Valerie Peng]

On Fri, 2 Aug 2024 19:19:54 GMT, Kevin Driver <kdriver at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Introduce an API for Key Derivation Functions (KDFs), which are cryptographic algorithms for deriving additional keys from a secret key and other data. See [JEP 478](https://openjdk.org/jeps/478).
>> 
>> Work was begun in [another PR](https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/18924).
>
> Kevin Driver 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 16 additional commits since the last revision:
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>  - update test to include Spi updates
>  - Update with latest from master
>    
>    Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into kdf-jep-wip
>    # Please enter a commit message to explain why this merge is necessary,
>    # especially if it merges an updated upstream into a topic branch.
>    #
>    # Lines starting with '#' will be ignored, and an empty message aborts
>    # the commit.
>  - add engineGetKDFParameters to the KDFSpi
>  - code review comment fix for javadoc specification
>  - change course on null return values from derive methods
>  - code review comments
>  - threading refactor + code review comments
>  - review comments
>  - review comments
>  - update code snippet type in KDF
>  - ... and 6 more: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/compare/4f108e38...dd2ee48f

src/java.base/share/classes/javax/crypto/KDF.java line 469:

> 467:      * @throws InvalidAlgorithmParameterException
> 468:      *     if the information contained within the {@code kdfParameterSpec} is
> 469:      *     invalid, if {@code alg} is invalid, or if their combination

Again, what is the definition of `alg` being invalid? Would it be clearer to just refer to `KDFSpi.engineDeriveKey()` and not duplicating the words here?

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20301#discussion_r1715743461