On Thu, 6 May 2021 14:25:13 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.
>
> Weijun Wang has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional 
> commit since the last revision:
> 
>   better comment

Changes look good.

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Marked as reviewed by valeriep (Reviewer).

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

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