On Thu, 23 Feb 2023 18:15:35 GMT, Ahmed Muhsin <d...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> This change will move the instantiation of BadPaddingException into the > branch of the if statement where it is thrown. This will decrease the > overhead of calling `unpadV15` and `unpadOAEP`. Please see the associated > work item for past discussions regarding this change. > > The build and tier1 tests pass locally on mac-aarch64. Well `throw` will always be slower than `return`, even if the stack trace is populated on both paths. How do we know if we are not vulnerable to Bleichenbacher's attack today? (granted, creating the exception on `throw` path only will increase the timing difference) ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12732