On Fri, 2 Sep 2022 08:51:04 GMT, Bernd <d...@openjdk.org> wrote: >> I want this to be spec from now on. If we want to backport this to older >> releases, then the paragraph above can be @implNote. > > I agree that this should be in the API spec. > > Does the „return null“ case for invalid encodings need to mention any > exceptions triggered by the actual key instantion to make clear the Spec is > only a container?
I plan to swallow all exceptions while parsing the ASN.1 encoding and not mentioning any type name. Also, I only intend to read until the algorithm field, no key material is read and certainly no `Key` object is instantiated. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10131
