On Tue, 13 Aug 2024 15:24:11 GMT, Kevin Driver <kdri...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Introduce an API for Key Derivation Functions (KDFs), which are 
>> cryptographic algorithms for deriving additional keys from a secret key and 
>> other data. See [JEP 478](https://openjdk.org/jeps/478).
>> 
>> Work was begun in [another PR](https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/18924).
>
> Kevin Driver has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional 
> commit since the last revision:
> 
>   addressed several review comments, namely: - renaming the getParameters 
> method - renaming the AlgorithmParameterSpec object - address some javadoc 
> exception messages - add some information to KDF class private constructor 
> javadocs - other general cleanup

src/java.base/share/classes/com/sun/crypto/provider/HkdfKeyDerivation.java line 
151:

> 149:             try {
> 150:                 return hkdfExtract(inputKeyMaterial,
> 151:                                    (salt == null) ? null : 
> salt.getEncoded());

RFC 5869 sec2.2 states that "salt - if not provided, it is set to a string of 
HashLen zeros." To match the spec better, we should do this instead of use 
`null`?

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20301#discussion_r1718925875

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