On Thu, 10 Nov 2022 17:59:44 GMT, Weijun Wang <wei...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> An `EncryptedPrivateKeyInfo` object can be created with an uninitialized 
>> `AlgorithmParameters`, but before you call `getEncoded` on it you need to 
>> remember to initialize the params. This is unfortunate but since this is a 
>> public API, I hesitate to make a change.
>> 
>> Instead, this code change fixes the much more widely used internal class 
>> `AlgorithmId` so that it cannot be created with an uninitialized 
>> `AlgorithmParameters`. `EncryptedPrivateKeyInfo` now works with both 
>> initialized and uninitialized params, and it's immutable.
>> 
>> No intention to make `AlgorithmId` immutable this time. It has a child class 
>> named `AlgIdDSA` which makes things complicated.
>
> Weijun Wang has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional 
> commit since the last revision:
> 
>   expected

src/java.base/share/classes/javax/crypto/EncryptedPrivateKeyInfo.java line 62:

> 60:     // The "encryptionAlgorithm" field. If this object is created by
> 61:     // {@link #EncryptedPrivateKeyInfo(AlgorithmParameters, byte[])}
> 62:     // with an uninitialized params, it's stored here and algid is null.

A bit confused by the words "it's stored here" if it is always null for the 
case where the params are uninitialized. How about: "... with an uninitialized 
params, algid is null."

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11067

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