Silent fallback to smaller key sizes causes trouble
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Key: JRUBY-4300
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JRUBY-4300
Project: JRuby
Issue Type: Bug
Components: OpenSSL
Affects Versions: JRuby-OpenSSL 0.5.1
Reporter: Christian Seiler
org.jruby.ext.openssl.Cipher falls back to smaller keys automatically without
any warning or something. This was the cause of a lot of trouble in my app:
As it turned out the unrestricted security pack of Sun's JRE was not installed
on my production box. So my app used 128 bit keys instead of the requested 256
bits - me being totally unaware of it.
That's not good of course, but so far the app was working (with weaker
encryption though). The real bummer was this: I start some rake tasks every
once in a while and those are run with IcedTea (was preinstalled on that Linux
box). And guess what: IcedTea doesn't have that security restriction (like
Apple's JRE or MRI of course). I ended up with mixed key sizes.
IMO this automatic degradation of the key size shouldn't happen.
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