On Fri, 30 Apr 2021 17:35:46 GMT, Weijun Wang <wei...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> `PKCS12KeyStore` always uses a 20-byte salt in encryption but 
> PBEWithMD5AndDES only accepts 8-byte salt. With this code change, the salt 
> used for this algorithm will be 8 bytes.
> 
> RFC 2898 only requires the salt to be at least 8 bytes, but I don't intend to 
> modify the `PBES1Core.java` to accept a long salt. Otherwise, a newly 
> generated PKCS #⁠12 file using a long salt will not be recognized by an old 
> JDK.
> 
> Also, although `PBES1Core.java` also take cares of another algorithm named 
> PBEWithMD5AndDESede but it's not usable in a PKCS #⁠12 keystore as we have 
> not defined its Object Identifier anywhere.

src/java.base/share/classes/sun/security/pkcs12/PKCS12KeyStore.java line 811:

> 809:         byte[] salt = getSalt();
> 810:         if (KnownOIDs.findMatch(algorithm) == 
> KnownOIDs.PBEWithMD5AndDES) {
> 811:             // PBEWithMD5AndDES requires a 8-byte salt

nit: maybe use "PBES1 scheme such as PBEWithMD5AndDES requires a 8-byte salt"

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/3822

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