Loading doc/crypto/CMS_decrypt.pod +15 −1 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -27,7 +27,21 @@ function or errors about unknown algorithms will occur. Although the recipients certificate is not needed to decrypt the data it is needed to locate the appropriate (of possible several) recipients in the CMS structure. If B<cert> is set to NULL all possible recipients are tried. structure. If B<cert> is set to NULL all possible recipients are tried. This case however is problematic. To thwart the MMA attack (Bleichenbacher's attack on PKCS #1 v1.5 RSA padding) all recipients are tried whether they succeed or not. If no recipient succeeds then a random symmetric key is used to decrypt the content: this will typically output garbage and may (but is not guaranteed to) ultimately return a padding error only. If CMS_decrypt() just returned an error when all recipient encrypted keys failed to decrypt an attacker could use this in a timing attack. If the special flag B<CMS_DEBUG_DECRYPT> is set then the above behaviour is modified and an error B<is> returned if no recipient encrypted key can be decrypted B<without> generating a random content encryption key. Applications should use this flag with B<extreme caution> especially in automated gateways as it can leave them open to attack. It is possible to determine the correct recipient key by other means (for example looking them up in a database) and setting them in the CMS structure Loading Loading
doc/crypto/CMS_decrypt.pod +15 −1 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -27,7 +27,21 @@ function or errors about unknown algorithms will occur. Although the recipients certificate is not needed to decrypt the data it is needed to locate the appropriate (of possible several) recipients in the CMS structure. If B<cert> is set to NULL all possible recipients are tried. structure. If B<cert> is set to NULL all possible recipients are tried. This case however is problematic. To thwart the MMA attack (Bleichenbacher's attack on PKCS #1 v1.5 RSA padding) all recipients are tried whether they succeed or not. If no recipient succeeds then a random symmetric key is used to decrypt the content: this will typically output garbage and may (but is not guaranteed to) ultimately return a padding error only. If CMS_decrypt() just returned an error when all recipient encrypted keys failed to decrypt an attacker could use this in a timing attack. If the special flag B<CMS_DEBUG_DECRYPT> is set then the above behaviour is modified and an error B<is> returned if no recipient encrypted key can be decrypted B<without> generating a random content encryption key. Applications should use this flag with B<extreme caution> especially in automated gateways as it can leave them open to attack. It is possible to determine the correct recipient key by other means (for example looking them up in a database) and setting them in the CMS structure Loading