On Thu, 13 Apr 2023 17:35:00 GMT, Xue-Lei Andrew Fan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> `DHKEM.java` is the implementation, and it does not know which provider it
>> will be put into. It's inside the provider that calls `putService` or `put`
>> to add an implementation there, not that the implementation registered
>> itself in a provider.
>>
>> If `getProvider()` is implemented inside the implementation, then it can
>> only be attached to one provider. Also, do you expect it to return `new
>> SunJCE()`? This means the `p` in `getInstance("DHKEM", p)` will be a
>> different instance from the value returned by `getProvider()`. There is no
>> specification talking about if the instances must be the same or not, but
>> it's probably not a good idea to have 2 objects for the same provider.
>>
>> In fact, I can create a new provider and simply call `putService` to add
>> existing implementations (that were already provided by other providers)
>> inside it, and I can `getInstance` from this provider and its
>> `getProvider()` returns this provider.
>>
>> For this reason, the base `Encapsulator` interface cannot be defined inside
>> `KEM`. As I said earlier, it can be defined inside `KEMSpi` and then we add
>> an extra `provider()` method to its implementation in `KEM`. I just don't
>> think this is worth doing.
>
>> `DHKEM.java` is the implementation, and it does not know which provider it
>> will be put into. It's inside the provider that calls `putService` or `put`
>> to add an implementation there, not that the implementation registered
>> itself in a provider.
>>
> I did not get the idea. Why DHKEM.java need register itself in a provider?
> A DHKEM.java is a part of a provider, and the Provider implementation in the
> provider knows how to register DHKEM.
>
>> If `getProvider()` is implemented inside the implementation, then it can
>> only be attached to one provider. Also, do you expect it to return `new
>> SunJCE()`? This means the `p` in `getInstance("DHKEM", p)` will be a
>> different instance from the value returned by `getProvider()`.
>
> I did not get the idea. How could it be possible to return different
> instances. `getInstance("DHKEM", p)` returns the DHKEM implementation in
> provider p. The "DHKEM" string name here is not the DHKEM.java class in
> SunJCE provider.
>
> Back to the question you have previously:
>> If the interface is only in KEM, then it needs a provider() method, but an
>> implementation actually does not know what the provider is.
>
> Why it is needed to know the provider of the interface? Do you mean the
> Encapsulator provider could be different from the KEM provider? That's, KEM
> provider is ProviderK, and the Encapsulator provider is ProviderE, and you
> want them work together? Does it make sense that it is required that
> Encapsulator is an internal implementation of the KEM provider (i.e., both
> from the same provider)?
Currently, `provider()` is a method of `KEM.Encapsulator`. If `KEMSpi.
newEncapsulator` also returns this interface, then what value should its
`provider()` method return? This is what I meant registering itself to a
provider.
When I said different instances, I was asking
var k = KEM.getInstance("DHKEM", p);
var e = k.newEncapsulator(pk);
// now, is p == e.provider()?
Or, are you suggesting we should define `provider()` somewhere else? It's
possible, but I have difficulty making every class immutable.
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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13256#discussion_r1165858327
