The Cipher methods update and doFinal support data streaming. However, cipher transformations that use an AES KeyWrap algorithm (defined in RFC 3394: Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Key Wrap Algorithm) such as AESWrap, AESWrapPad, AES/KW/NoPadding, and AES/KWP/NoPadding don't lend themselves to data streaming because all input data must be available before any of the input data can be fully processed. Consequently, if an AESWrap transform Cipher object is initialized with the ENCRYPT_MODE operation, any plaintext passed to an update method is copied into an internal buffer so that it may be later processed during a subsequent doFinal method call. The Cipher object's internal plaintext buffer is zeroed and freed when doFinal is invoked or when the Cipher object is garbage collected. Applications that want to avoid plaintext being buffered by an AESWrap transform Cipher object should avoid calling update. For example, consider the following code:

Cipher wrapper = Cipher.getInstance("AESWrap");
wrapper.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, secretKey);
wrapper.update(plaintext);
byte[] cipherText = wrapper.doFinal();

You can replace it with the following:

Cipher wrapper = Cipher.getInstance("AESWrap");
wrapper.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, secretKey);
byte[] cipherText = wrapper.doFinal(plaintext);