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Diffstat (limited to 'src/crypto/x509/pem_decrypt.go')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/crypto/x509/pem_decrypt.go | 35 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/src/crypto/x509/pem_decrypt.go b/src/crypto/x509/pem_decrypt.go index 93d1e4a922..781cb3de83 100644 --- a/src/crypto/x509/pem_decrypt.go +++ b/src/crypto/x509/pem_decrypt.go @@ -95,7 +95,12 @@ func (c rfc1423Algo) deriveKey(password, salt []byte) []byte { return out } -// IsEncryptedPEMBlock returns if the PEM block is password encrypted. +// IsEncryptedPEMBlock returns whether the PEM block is password encrypted +// according to RFC 1423. +// +// Deprecated: Legacy PEM encryption as specified in RFC 1423 is insecure by +// design. Since it does not authenticate the ciphertext, it is vulnerable to +// padding oracle attacks that can let an attacker recover the plaintext. func IsEncryptedPEMBlock(b *pem.Block) bool { _, ok := b.Headers["DEK-Info"] return ok @@ -104,14 +109,18 @@ func IsEncryptedPEMBlock(b *pem.Block) bool { // IncorrectPasswordError is returned when an incorrect password is detected. var IncorrectPasswordError = errors.New("x509: decryption password incorrect") -// DecryptPEMBlock takes a password encrypted PEM block and the password used to -// encrypt it and returns a slice of decrypted DER encoded bytes. It inspects -// the DEK-Info header to determine the algorithm used for decryption. If no -// DEK-Info header is present, an error is returned. If an incorrect password -// is detected an IncorrectPasswordError is returned. Because of deficiencies -// in the encrypted-PEM format, it's not always possible to detect an incorrect -// password. In these cases no error will be returned but the decrypted DER -// bytes will be random noise. +// DecryptPEMBlock takes a PEM block encrypted according to RFC 1423 and the +// password used to encrypt it and returns a slice of decrypted DER encoded +// bytes. It inspects the DEK-Info header to determine the algorithm used for +// decryption. If no DEK-Info header is present, an error is returned. If an +// incorrect password is detected an IncorrectPasswordError is returned. Because +// of deficiencies in the format, it's not always possible to detect an +// incorrect password. In these cases no error will be returned but the +// decrypted DER bytes will be random noise. +// +// Deprecated: Legacy PEM encryption as specified in RFC 1423 is insecure by +// design. Since it does not authenticate the ciphertext, it is vulnerable to +// padding oracle attacks that can let an attacker recover the plaintext. func DecryptPEMBlock(b *pem.Block, password []byte) ([]byte, error) { dek, ok := b.Headers["DEK-Info"] if !ok { @@ -178,8 +187,12 @@ func DecryptPEMBlock(b *pem.Block, password []byte) ([]byte, error) { } // EncryptPEMBlock returns a PEM block of the specified type holding the -// given DER-encoded data encrypted with the specified algorithm and -// password. +// given DER encoded data encrypted with the specified algorithm and +// password according to RFC 1423. +// +// Deprecated: Legacy PEM encryption as specified in RFC 1423 is insecure by +// design. Since it does not authenticate the ciphertext, it is vulnerable to +// padding oracle attacks that can let an attacker recover the plaintext. func EncryptPEMBlock(rand io.Reader, blockType string, data, password []byte, alg PEMCipher) (*pem.Block, error) { ciph := cipherByKey(alg) if ciph == nil { |