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Kim Haase commented on DERBY-4229: ---------------------------------- I'll commit this tomorrow morning (9/26) unless I hear otherwise, since I need to get this topic in before filing a patch for DERBY-5805. > encryptionKeyLength connection attribute should be documented > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: DERBY-4229 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-4229 > Project: Derby > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Documentation > Affects Versions: 10.5.1.1 > Reporter: Kathey Marsden > Assignee: Kim Haase > Fix For: 10.5.2.0 > > Attachments: cdevcsecure67151.html, DERBY-4229-2.diff, > DERBY-4229-2.stat, DERBY-4229-3.diff, DERBY-4229.diff, > rrefattribencryptkeylength.html, rrefattribencryptkeylength.html > > > The developer guide says: > The length of the encryption key depends on the algorithm used: > AES (128, 192, and 256 bits) > DES (the default) (56 bits) > DESede (168 bits) > All other algorithms (128 bits) > Note: The boot password should have at least as many characters as number of > bytes in the encryption key (56 bits=8 bytes, 168 bits=24 bytes, 128 bits=16 > bytes). The minimum number of characters for the boot password allowed by > Derby is eight. > For AES, however, it does not tell how to change the default key length of > 128. This can be changed with the encryptionKeyLength connection attribute. > The documentation should also specify that special policy files for the JRE > may be necessary to accomodate the longer length. > Also note that there is an outstanding issue DERBY-3710 regarding length of > 192 for AES. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira