RFR: 8331008: Implement JEP 478: Key Derivation Function API (Preview) [v11]

[Valerie Peng]

On Tue, 13 Aug 2024 15:24:11 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).
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> Kevin Driver has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   addressed several review comments, namely: - renaming the getParameters method - renaming the AlgorithmParameterSpec object - address some javadoc exception messages - add some information to KDF class private constructor javadocs - other general cleanup

src/java.base/share/classes/com/sun/crypto/provider/HkdfKeyDerivation.java line 124:

> 122:         List<SecretKey> salts;
> 123:         SecretKey inputKeyMaterial;
> 124:         SecretKey salt;

Looking at the implementation, it seems you can just use byte[] for `inputKeyMaterial` and `salt`. Why bother packaging the bytes into a `SecretKey` object and later calling `getEncoded()` to retrieve it again?

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20301#discussion_r1718937168