RFR: 8348732: SunJCE and SunPKCS11 have different PBE key encodings [v4]

Francisco Ferrari Bihurriet fferrari at openjdk.org
Tue Apr 15 15:34:53 UTC 2025


On Mon, 14 Apr 2025 19:07:06 GMT, Valerie Peng <valeriep at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> As part of [https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8301553](JDK-8301553), SunPKCS11 provider added support for PBE SecretKeyFactories for `HmacPBESHAxxx` and `PBEWithHmacSHAxxxAndAES_yyy`. These impls produce keys whose encoding contains the PBKDF2 derived bytes. Given that SunJCE provider have supported `PBEWithHmacSHAxxxAndAES_yyy` SecretKeyFactories whose key encoding is the password bytes for long time. Such difference may be very confusing, e.g. using the same KeySpec and same-name SecretKeyFactory (from different providers), the resulting keys have same algorithm and format but different encodings.
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>> Given that the `P11Mac` and `P11PBECipher` classes already do key derivation internally, these PKCS11 SecretKeyFactories aren't a must-have and are proposed to be removed. I've also aligned the com.sun.crypto.provider.PBEKey class with com.sun.crypto.provider.PPBKDF2KeyImpl class to switch to "UTF-8" when converting the char[] to byte[]. This is to accomodate unicode passwords and given that "UTF-8" encoding is same for ASCII characters, this change should not affect backward compatibility.
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> Valerie Peng has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   the suggested test changes

Looks good to me, but please note I'm not a Reviewer.

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Marked as reviewed by fferrari (Committer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24068#pullrequestreview-2768887358


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