Added to the release notes on the wiki.

Andy LoPresto
[email protected]
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> On Mar 29, 2016, at 2:45 PM, Sean Busbey <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> In the mean time can we call this out in the release notes as a known
> issue so that folks using things as Alan was know about it before htey
> upgrade?
> 
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 12:58 PM, Andy LoPresto
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Thanks Alan. I don’t anticipate it being a large effort. I have it marked as
>> minor and will bump it if resources are strained.
>> 
>> Andy LoPresto
>> [email protected]
>> PGP Fingerprint: 70EC B3E5 98A6 5A3F D3C4  BACE 3C6E F65B 2F7D EF69
>> 
>> On Mar 29, 2016, at 10:32 AM, Alan Jackoway <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Honestly, it's not clear to me that we should handle this scenario. The
>> only reason I would propose fixing it is to handle people (like me) who did
>> it wrong and then upgraded. Requiring a keyring isn't that unusual, and the
>> docs are pretty specific. I just didn't read them.
>> 
>> Alan
>> 
>> On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 1:28 PM, Andy LoPresto <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Alan,
>> 
>> The processor properties for public keyring file and secret keyring file
>> are fairly explicit in their names, so when I upgraded the BouncyCastle
>> dependencies, I wrote logic that performs strict validation on the file
>> format because the underlying library code changed substantially. I was
>> unaware anyone was using the individual key file there.
>> 
>> I have created a Jira [1] for 0.7.0 to add custom logic to handle this
>> scenario.
>> 
>> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-1694
>> 
>> Andy LoPresto
>> [email protected]
>> PGP Fingerprint: 70EC B3E5 98A6 5A3F D3C4  BACE 3C6E F65B 2F7D EF69
>> 
>> On Mar 29, 2016, at 8:03 AM, Alan Jackoway <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> I don't get a stacktrace. Probably because it is a validation failure and
>> the error is caught at
>> https://github.com/apache/nifi/blob/master/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-standard-bundle/nifi-standard-processors/src/main/java/org/apache/nifi/processors/standard/EncryptContent.java#L288
>> 
>> I couldn't get your template to work without the gpgkeyring file. However,
>> that clued me into what I believe is the problem.
>> 
>> I have not been using a public keyring file, but rather the public key
>> itself. Somehow that used to work, but the parameter has always been called
>> Public Keyring File so I was using it wrong the whole time.
>> 
>> I attached the encrypt template that is working for me back in 0.3.0 (and
>> should work in 0.4.1 but not 0.5.1)
>> 
>> To fix it for 0.5.1, I had to make a real keyring file AND change the user
>> id to be the right thing.
>> 
>> This feels like a regression to me, but one where I was not following the
>> instructions all along.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Alan
>> 
>> On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 1:15 AM, Andy LoPresto <[email protected]
>> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> The only other thing I can think of off the top of my head is that the
>> userID specification may have changed with the BouncyCastle upgrade and the
>> provided userID of just an email may be incomplete? In my testing, I had to
>> specify the "name", "description", and "email" fields from the key in the
>> format below in order to match the exact format that the library reads from
>> the keyring.
>> 
>> userID = "Name (Description) <Email>"
>> 
>> You can test this and evaluate what the library sees as the key userID by
>> attaching a remote debugger to your running instance and evaluating inside
>> the iterator loop here [1].
>> 
>> I'm not sure what version of GPG you're running, but it is worth
>> investigating if the format of the stored key no longer matches how NiFi
>> was reading it.
>> 
>> [1]
>> https://github.com/apache/nifi/blob/master/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-standard-bundle/nifi-standard-processors/src/main/java/org/apache/nifi/processors/standard/util/crypto/OpenPGPKeyBasedEncryptor.java#L200
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Andy LoPresto
>> [email protected]
>> PGP Fingerprint: 70EC B3E5 98A6 5A3F D3C4  BACE 3C6E F65B 2F7D EF69
>> 
>> On Mar 28, 2016, at 18:24, Andy LoPresto <[email protected]>
>> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Forgot to mention you’ll want to change the input/output directories in
>> 
>> the GetFile and PutFile processors, as well as the paths to the public and
>> secret keyring, the user ID, and the password for the EncryptContent
>> processors.
>> 
>> 
>> Andy LoPresto
>> [email protected]
>> PGP Fingerprint: 70EC B3E5 98A6 5A3F D3C4  BACE 3C6E F65B 2F7D EF69
>> 
>> On Mar 28, 2016, at 4:04 PM, Andy LoPresto <[email protected]>
>> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Hi Alan,
>> 
>> I am investigating this issue (spinning up an instance, setting up a
>> 
>> flow that involves PGP encryption and decryption, etc.) to verify.
>> 
>> 
>> As an aside, the setting for “Key Derivation Function” is irrelevant
>> 
>> if “Encryption Algorithm” is set to “PGP” or “PGP_ASCII_ARMOR”. The KDF is
>> required for symmetric encryption (deriving a key from the provided
>> password), but not used for PGP encryption/decryption at all.
>> Unfortunately, we cannot currently display/hide or change the required-ness
>> of processor properties based on the value of other properties. There is an
>> existing Jira open [1] to enhance this functionality. Perhaps this can be
>> better documented in the Admin Guide [2].
>> 
>> 
>> Can you also provide the full stacktrace and your system
>> 
>> configuration, if possible, to help with the troubleshooting? Thank you.
>> 
>> 
>> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-1121
>> [2]
>> 
>> https://nifi.apache.org/docs/nifi-docs/html/administration-guide.html#encryption
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Andy LoPresto
>> [email protected]
>> PGP Fingerprint: 70EC B3E5 98A6 5A3F D3C4  BACE 3C6E F65B 2F7D EF69
>> 
>> On Mar 28, 2016, at 2:18 PM, Alan Jackoway <[email protected]>
>> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I had an EncryptContent processor running with PGP public key
>> 
>> encryption when we were running NiFi 0.4.x.
>> 
>> 
>> We recently went up to a 0.5.x, which includes NIFI-1257 and
>> 
>> NIFI-1259. Now my EncryptContent processors are failing to validate my key
>> with an error message:
>> 
>> 'Public Keyring File' is invalid because Invalid Public Keyring File
>> 
>> filename because java.io.IOException: invalid header encountered
>> 
>> 
>> I tried all the key derivation functions, but in all cases I got the
>> 
>> same error.
>> 
>> 
>> Is there an easy way to talk NiFi into using my key again?
>> 
>> I have attached a public key that works on 0.3.0 (I didn't have 0.4
>> 
>> on my machine for some reason) but fails in 0.5.1. The user id is
>> [email protected]
>> 
>> 
>> Is there any easy fix? Should I file a jira?
>> 
>> Since it said invalid header, I tried taking out the comment at the
>> 
>> top of the key. That didn't work.
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Alan
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>> <AlanEncryptTemplate.xml>
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