8201756: Improve cipher inputs

Summary: Clarify spec of CipherInputStream in Javadoc comments
Reviewed-by: ascarpino
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2018-04-23 12:01:46 -04:00
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/*
* Copyright (c) 1997, 2017, 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 @@ import javax.crypto.IllegalBlockSizeException;
* 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