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)

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12732

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