On Thu, 28 Apr 2022 23:08:17 GMT, Valerie Peng <valer...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> So, "the underlying signature implementation supports returning the
>> parameters as {@code AlgorithmParameters}" is quite necessary. Xuelei's
>> suggestion is quite good, just change the last "and" to "or".
>
> I assume you were suggesting this? `"The returned parameters may be the same
> that were used to initialize this signature, or may contain additional
> default or random parameter values used by the underlying signature
> implementation. {https://github.com/code null} is returned if the required
> parameters were not supplied and the underlying signature implementation
> cannot generate the parameter values."`
> But the "the underlying signature implementation supports returning the
> parameters as {https://github.com/code AlgorithmParameters}" is necessary.
> Strictly speaking, this is somewhat different than the "cannot generate
> parameter values" though. Perhaps we should go a bit broader for the last
> sentence regarding null return value?
I suggest the last sentence to be "null is returned if the required parameters
were not supplied **or** the underlying signature implementation cannot
generate the parameter values." I used "or" because for EdDSA parameters are
supplied but the impl cannot generate parameter values.
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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/8396
