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Message-ID: <CAFKiAGDwoeMn+VGeU5VMAP3ihRCcXpf+KC2ttq=-dSbLk9DMqw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 03:59:01 -0500
From: George Staikos <staikos@....org>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@...hat.com>
Cc: security@....org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: kwallet crypto misuse
This issue has been known for years but it seems kwallet is unmaintained. I
had to stop working on it before I could fix this, among other issues.
Somebody should fix the crypto, yes, though I'm not sure how urgent an
issue this really is.
On Jan 2, 2014 3:15 AM, "Florian Weimer" <fweimer@...hat.com> 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. UTF-16 encoding combined with Blowfish's 64
> bit block size means there are just four password characters per block.
> Encryption is convergent as well. This may enable recovery of passwords
> through codebook attacks.
>
> Should we treat this as a minor vulnerability?
>
> --
> Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team
>
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