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Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 11:27:12 +0400
From: gremlin@...mlin.ru
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: gremlin@...mlin.ru
Subject: Re: kwallet crypto misuse
On 02-Jan-2014 09:15:15 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> I just noticed this is now public:
> http://gaganpreet.in/blog/2013/07/24/kwallet-security-analysis/
> Short summary: kwallet uses Blowfish to encrypt its password
> store, and despite an attempt at implementing CBC mode (in a
> file called cbc.cc no less), it's actually ECB mode.
That's unpleasant, but not really a fatal issue...
> UTF-16 encoding combined with Blowfish's 64 bit block size means
> there are just four password characters per block.
But this is: any and all passwords, being used for encryption key
generation, must be hashed, then salted, then hashed again. SHA-256
may be a good choice for generating Blowfish 256-bit key this way.
> Encryption is convergent as well. This may enable recovery of
> passwords through codebook attacks. Should we treat this as a
> minor vulnerability?
Is it really minor?
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Alexey V. Vissarionov aka Gremlin from Kremlin <gremlin ПРИ gremlin ТЧК ru>
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