On Wed, 2 Mar 2022 22:31:02 GMT, Valerie Peng <valer...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> Maybe not. When the generated secret is shorter, the padded bytes are always >> at the beginning. > > With a bigger buffer, i.e. say 80-byte long, instead of 64-byte, I'd expect a > difference and higher reproducibility... After `n = generateSecret(secret, offset)` is called, only `n` bytes from `offset` should be touched, and in this case `n` is 64. Even if you allocate 80 bytes of data, we should not compare those after the 64th byte. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/7665