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Bug #8666

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Unable to set OpenSSL GCM iv_length in Ruby

Added by Anonymous almost 11 years ago. Updated about 10 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Assignee:
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Target version:
-
[ruby-core:56085]

Description

Hello,

In OpenSSL you are allowed to change the iv_length on an AES-BCM cipher. (
http://www.openssl.org/docs/crypto/EVP_EncryptInit.html#GCM_Mode) However
this was not implemented in the ruby-wrapper. Since I am a novice in C and
OpenSSL I think by no means my supplied patch is complete, it is a start
however. Maybe this missing function can be added to Ruby 2.0?

You can now set the iv_length using:

cipher = OpenSSL::Cipher.new('aes-128-gcm').encrypt
cipher.iv_len = 16

An issue I already spotted is that OpenSSL sets the ivlen on the
cipher_data (snippet from OpenSSL crypto/evp/e_aes.c):
EVP_AES_GCM_CTX *gctx = c->cipher_data;
gctx->ivlen = arg;

and not the c->cipher->iv_len. So querying for the iv_len in ruby by using
cipher.iv_len will still report the default which is 12. Encryption however
is done correctly using the new iv-length. I tested it by comparing it to
results from other programming languages (Java and C#).

Regards Andres


Files

ossl_set_iv_length.patch (1.25 KB) ossl_set_iv_length.patch Anonymous, 07/23/2013 08:02 AM

Updated by hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA) about 10 years ago

  • Status changed from Open to Closed
  • ruby -v set to -

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