RFR: 8347938: Switch to latest ML-KEM private key encoding [v4]

Sean Mullan mullan at openjdk.org
Fri Jul 25 20:03:56 UTC 2025


On Tue, 10 Jun 2025 14:41:49 GMT, Weijun Wang <weijun at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> The private key encoding formats of ML-KEM and ML-DSA are updated to match the latest IETF drafts at: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-lamps-dilithium-certificates-11 and https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-lamps-kyber-certificates-10. New security/system properties are introduced to determine which CHOICE a private key is encoded when a new key pair is generated or when `KeyFactory::translateKey` is called.
>> 
>> Both the encoding and the expanded format are stored inside a `NamedPKCS8Key` now. When loading from a PKCS #8 key, the expanded format is calculated from the input if it's seed only.
>
> Weijun Wang has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The pull request now contains seven commits:
> 
>  - Merge branch 'master' into 8347938
>  - KeyChoices class
>  - allow expanded to be null
>  - merge
>  - Merge
>  - safer privKeyToPubKey; updated desciptions for the properties; adding braces to if blocks
>  - the fix

src/java.base/share/conf/security/java.security line 1578:

> 1576: jdk.epkcs8.defaultAlgorithm=PBEWithHmacSHA256AndAES_128
> 1577: 
> 1578: #

Suggest combining the text and talking about both keys together since there is a lot of duplicated text.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24969#discussion_r2231914131


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