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Re: Why is Java 7 converting the Password toCharArray instead of Byte in it's PBKDF2 function?

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From Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>
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Subject Re: Why is Java 7 converting the Password toCharArray instead of Byte in it's PBKDF2 function?
Date Tue, 19 Jun 2018 23:20:06 +0200
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On 19.06.2018 22:18, Lothar Kimmeringer wrote:
> Karl.Frank wrote:
> 
>> The amount of byte to read is exactly defined by
>>
>>     int BuffSize = System.in.available();
>>     byte[] pwByte = new byte[BuffSize];
>>     System.in.read(pwByte, 0, BuffSize);
>>
>> How would the program read more byte than necessary?
> 
> InputStream.available only returns the number of bytes that
> can be read without blocking.

It returns an _estimate_ of that number.  A conforming implementation is 
even allowed to sometimes or always return 0.  And in fact this is what 
InputStream's own implementation does.

> Dependent on how the data ends
> up there there still might be data left to read that you
> missed because of that.
> 
> What you're doing here is a common programming error.

I hope not, but may be.

Cheers

	robert

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Re: Why is Java 7 converting the Password toCharArray instead of Byte in it's PBKDF2 function? "Karl.Frank" <Karl.Frank@Freecx.co.uk> - 2018-05-15 23:37 +0200
  Re: Why is Java 7 converting the Password toCharArray instead of Byte in it's PBKDF2 function? "Karl.Frank" <Karl.Frank@Freecx.co.uk> - 2018-05-16 15:58 +0200
  Re: Why is Java 7 converting the Password toCharArray instead of Byte in it's PBKDF2 function? Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2018-06-18 18:41 +0200
    Re: Why is Java 7 converting the Password toCharArray instead of Byte in it's PBKDF2 function? "Chris M. Thomasson" <invalid_chris_thomasson@invalid.invalid> - 2018-06-18 13:33 -0700
    Re: Why is Java 7 converting the Password toCharArray instead of Byte in it's PBKDF2 function? "Karl.Frank" <Karl.Frank@Freecx.co.uk> - 2018-06-19 12:54 +0200
      Re: Why is Java 7 converting the Password toCharArray instead of Byte in it's PBKDF2 function? Lothar Kimmeringer <news201705@kimmeringer.de> - 2018-06-19 22:18 +0200
        Re: Why is Java 7 converting the Password toCharArray instead of Byte in it's PBKDF2 function? Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2018-06-19 23:20 +0200
        Re: Why is Java 7 converting the Password toCharArray instead of Byte in it's PBKDF2 function? "Karl.Frank" <Karl.Frank@Freecx.co.uk> - 2018-06-19 23:23 +0200
      Re: Why is Java 7 converting the Password toCharArray instead of Byte in it's PBKDF2 function? Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2018-06-19 23:15 +0200
        Re: Why is Java 7 converting the Password toCharArray instead of Byte in it's PBKDF2 function? "Karl.Frank" <Karl.Frank@Freecx.co.uk> - 2018-06-20 00:03 +0200

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