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Kim Haase commented on DERBY-5622:
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You explain this with remarkable clarity, Rick -- and I don't think we ever
document clearly that using bootPassword is incompatible with using
encryptionKey. Shall I file a doc issue on this?
> Reduce the chance for hash collisions when checking bootPassword at boot time
> and when changing password.
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> Key: DERBY-5622
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-5622
> Project: Derby
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Store
> Reporter: Dag H. Wanvik
> Attachments: derby-5622-instrumentation.diff, repro.sh
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> There are two issues, already seen in DERBY-2687:
> "the boot issue": there is a 1/2**16 chance that a wrong bootPassword will
> allow boot to proceed (but since its decoded key is wrong the boot will fail).
> "the password change" issue: similarly, there is a chance that the wrong
> bootPassword will be accepted trying to change it via
> SYSCS_UTIL.SYSCS_SET_DATABASE_PROPERTY('bootPassword', ...) at least for
> algorithms that do not check IV (initialization vector) in addition to the
> digest, e.g. "DES/ECB/NoPadding"
> The latter case may lead to data corruption, cf. DERBY-2687 discussion. I
> think the risk is fairly low, though: One would need to have execution
> permission to change the property if SQL authorization is used, and in most
> scenarios the supplied existing password would be correct. But since the
> results can be bad, it would be good to reduce or eliminate the risk.
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