changeset 1835:01d60f0cbf30

8201756: Improve cipher inputs Summary: Clarify spec of CipherInputStream in Javadoc comments Reviewed-by: ascarpino
author apetcher
date Mon, 23 Apr 2018 12:01:46 -0400
parents bfbb31220c42
children 3dde65b3b78d
files src/share/classes/javax/crypto/CipherInputStream.java
diffstat 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/src/share/classes/javax/crypto/CipherInputStream.java	Tue Jul 10 16:56:22 2018 +0100
+++ b/src/share/classes/javax/crypto/CipherInputStream.java	Mon Apr 23 12:01:46 2018 -0400
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 1997, 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 1997, 2018, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
  *
  * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
@@ -50,6 +50,13 @@
  * that are not thrown by its ancestor classes.  In particular, the
  * <code>skip</code> method skips, and the <code>available</code>
  * method counts only data that have been processed by the encapsulated Cipher.
+ * This class may catch BadPaddingException and other exceptions thrown by
+ * failed integrity checks during decryption. These exceptions are not
+ * re-thrown, so the client may not be informed that integrity checks
+ * failed. Because of this behavior, this class may not be suitable
+ * for use with decryption in an authenticated mode of operation (e.g. GCM).
+ * Applications that require authenticated encryption can use the Cipher API
+ * directly as an alternative to using this class.
  *
  * <p> It is crucial for a programmer using this class not to use
  * methods that are not defined or overriden in this class (such as a