PubSecHandlerUsingAesGcm.java
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package com.itextpdf.kernel.crypto.securityhandler;
import com.itextpdf.kernel.crypto.AesGcmDecryptor;
import com.itextpdf.kernel.crypto.IDecryptor;
import com.itextpdf.kernel.crypto.OutputStreamAesGcmEncryption;
import com.itextpdf.kernel.crypto.OutputStreamEncryption;
import com.itextpdf.kernel.pdf.PdfDictionary;
import com.itextpdf.kernel.pdf.PdfName;
import com.itextpdf.kernel.security.IExternalDecryptionProcess;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.security.Key;
import java.security.cert.Certificate;
/**
* Public-key security handler with Advanced Encryption Standard-Galois/Counter Mode (AES-GCM) encryption algorithm.
*/
public class PubSecHandlerUsingAesGcm extends PubSecHandlerUsingAes256 {
protected byte[] noncePart = null;
protected int inObjectNonceCounter = 0;
/**
* Creates new {@link PubSecHandlerUsingAesGcm} instance for encryption.
*
* @param encryptionDictionary document's encryption dictionary
* @param certs recipients' X.509 public key certificates
* @param permissions access permissions provided to each recipient
* @param encryptMetadata indicates whether the document-level metadata stream shall be encrypted
* @param embeddedFilesOnly indicates whether embedded files shall be encrypted in an otherwise unencrypted document
*/
public PubSecHandlerUsingAesGcm(PdfDictionary encryptionDictionary, Certificate[] certs, int[] permissions,
boolean encryptMetadata, boolean embeddedFilesOnly) {
super(encryptionDictionary, certs, permissions, encryptMetadata, embeddedFilesOnly);
}
/**
* Creates new {@link PubSecHandlerUsingAesGcm} instance for decryption.
*
* @param encryptionDictionary document's encryption dictionary
* @param certificateKey the recipient private {@link Key} to the certificate
* @param certificate the recipient {@link Certificate}, serves as recipient identifier
* @param certificateKeyProvider the certificate key provider id
* for {@link java.security.Security#getProvider(String)}
* @param externalDecryptionProcess the external decryption process to be used
* @param encryptMetadata indicates whether the document-level metadata stream shall be encrypted
*/
public PubSecHandlerUsingAesGcm(PdfDictionary encryptionDictionary, Key certificateKey, Certificate certificate,
String certificateKeyProvider, IExternalDecryptionProcess externalDecryptionProcess,
boolean encryptMetadata) {
super(encryptionDictionary, certificateKey, certificate, certificateKeyProvider, externalDecryptionProcess,
encryptMetadata);
}
@Override
public void setHashKeyForNextObject(int objNumber, int objGeneration) {
// Make sure the same IV is never used twice in the same file. We do this by turning the objId/objGen into a
// 5-byte nonce (with generation restricted to 1 byte instead of 2) plus an in-object 2-byte counter that
// increments each time a new string is encrypted within the same object. The remaining 5 bytes will be
// generated randomly using a strong PRNG.
// This is very different from the situation with AES-CBC, where randomness is paramount.
// GCM uses a variation of counter mode, so making sure the IV is unique is more important than randomness.
this.inObjectNonceCounter = 0;
this.noncePart = new byte[]{
0, 0,
(byte) (objGeneration),
(byte) (objNumber >>> 24),
(byte) (objNumber >>> 16),
(byte) (objNumber >>> 8),
(byte) (objNumber),
};
}
@Override
public OutputStreamEncryption getEncryptionStream(OutputStream os) {
int ctr = inObjectNonceCounter;
noncePart[0] = (byte) (ctr >>> 8);
noncePart[1] = (byte) ctr;
return new OutputStreamAesGcmEncryption(os, nextObjectKey, noncePart);
}
@Override
public IDecryptor getDecryptor() {
return new AesGcmDecryptor(nextObjectKey, 0, nextObjectKeySize);
}
@Override
protected void setPubSecSpecificHandlerDicEntries(PdfDictionary encryptionDictionary, boolean encryptMetadata,
boolean embeddedFilesOnly) {
int version = 6;
PdfName filter = PdfName.AESV4;
setEncryptionDictEntries(encryptionDictionary, encryptMetadata, embeddedFilesOnly, version, filter);
}
/**
* {@inheritDoc}
*/
@Override
protected void initMd5MessageDigest() {
//Do nothing to not initialize md5 message digest, since it's not used by AES-GCM handler
}
}