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Replace PKCS5 Key File Class with PKCS8 #793

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This pull request removes the PKCS5KeyFile class and references in favor of parsing using PKCS8KeyFile. The Bouncy Castle PEMParser already used in PKCS8KeyFile supports both types of key files.

RFC 8018 describes PKCS5 as the Password-Based Cryptography Specification Version 2.0, including methods for key derivation using various algorithms. Although encrypted private keys make use of password-based cryptography, using PKCS5 as a type of key file does not describe the key format itself.

RFC 8017 describes PKCS1 as RSA Cryptography Specifications Version 2.2. Appendix A of RFC 8017 describes the ASN.1 syntax for RSA Public and Private Keys. The encoded binary contents of files starting with BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY or BEGIN RSA PUBLIC KEY align with the ASN.1 described in RFC 8017. For this reason, it is more accurate to describe the format of these files as PKCS1.

RFC 5958 describes PKCS8 Asymmetric Key Packages, including the ASN.1 syntax for different types of keys.

Although the naming of PKCS8KeyFile is accurate, the implementation leverages the Bouncy Castle PEMParser, which is capable of handling a variety of PEM encoded formats, including both PKCS8 and PKCS1 keys, with or without encryption. Removing the PKCS5KeyFile implementation and defaulting parsing to PKCS8KeyFile removes the need for custom PEM parsing in PKCS5KeyFile while maintaining support for the same types of keys.

Renaming PKCS8KeyFile to something more generalized, such as PEMKeyFile might be more accurate, but the initial approach avoids renaming to minimize the impact of changes.

Java supports unencrypted PKCS8 processing using PKCS8EncodedKeySpec and other classes. It might be possible to remove the dependency on Bouncy Castle with a custom PEM-parsing implementation, but it would be useful to streamline generalized PEM-encoded processing prior to considering those changes.

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Merging #793 (c354dc7) into master (f33bfec) will increase coverage by 0.05%.
The diff coverage is 100.00%.

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  Files           211      210       -1     
  Lines          8660     8516     -144     
  Branches        812      778      -34     
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- Hits           5613     5524      -89     
+ Misses         2615     2587      -28     
+ Partials        432      405      -27     
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src/main/java/net/schmizz/sshj/DefaultConfig.java 91.11% <ø> (ø)
src/main/java/net/schmizz/sshj/SSHClient.java 58.95% <ø> (ø)
...t/schmizz/sshj/userauth/keyprovider/KeyFormat.java 100.00% <ø> (ø)
...chmizz/sshj/userauth/keyprovider/PKCS8KeyFile.java 79.31% <ø> (+1.72%) ⬆️
...izz/sshj/userauth/keyprovider/KeyProviderUtil.java 58.33% <100.00%> (+0.64%) ⬆️
...in/java/net/schmizz/sshj/transport/digest/MD5.java 0.00% <0.00%> (-40.00%) ⬇️
...n/java/net/schmizz/sshj/common/ByteArrayUtils.java 53.06% <0.00%> (-16.33%) ⬇️
.../net/schmizz/sshj/transport/digest/BaseDigest.java 66.66% <0.00%> (-6.67%) ⬇️
...ain/java/net/schmizz/sshj/common/SSHException.java 67.74% <0.00%> (ø)
...net/schmizz/sshj/transport/TransportException.java 44.44% <0.00%> (ø)
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- Moved tests for PEM-encoded PKCS1 files to PKCS8
- Removed PKCS5 Key File implementation
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Thanks for the feedback @hierynomus! I updated PKCS8KeyFileTest with a new test method to exercise retrying a password after initial failure.

@hierynomus hierynomus merged commit 5674072 into hierynomus:master Jul 14, 2022
ylangisc added a commit to iterate-ch/cyberduck that referenced this pull request Aug 11, 2022
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