[xmlsec] Special password length for block encryption?

[Aleksey Sanin]

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Best,
Aleksey

Stefan Schulze Frielinghaus wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm just playing around with the XMLsec library and wanted to encrypt
> one content of my XML file. I run into a problem when the length of the
> password varies. For example for 3DES the password has to be 24
> characters long. For AES256 it has to be 32 characters long.
> 
> If the password isn't the exact size I receive the following error
> message (which made me headaches for hours because it's not really
> meaningful, maybe space for improvement?):
> 
> func=xmlSecEncCtxEncDataNodeRead:file=xmlenc.c:line=885:obj=unknown:subj=unknown:error=45:key is not found: 
> func=xmlSecEncCtxXmlEncrypt:file=xmlenc.c:line=375:obj=unknown:subj=xmlSecEncCtxEncDataNodeRead:error=1:xmlsec library function failed:
> 
> I also skim through the XML Encryption Standard but couldn't find any
> limitations so I suspect that I did something wrong or the library is
> not functioning properly.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Best regards
> Stefan
> 
> PS: xmlsec version 1.2.11
> PSS: The very skeleton of my application:
> encDataNode = xmlSecTmplEncDataCreate(doc, xmlSecTransformAes256CbcId,
>               NULL, xmlSecTypeEncContent, NULL, NULL);
> xmlSecTmplEncDataEnsureCipherValue(encDataNode)
> encCtx = xmlSecEncCtxCreate(NULL);
> encCtx->encKey = xmlSecKeyReadMemory (xmlSecKeyDataAesId, password,
> 		strlen (password));
> xmlSecEncCtxXmlEncrypt (encCtx, encDataNode, secnode)
> 
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