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Message-ID: <871un488o3.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
Date: Tue, 01 May 2012 13:03:56 +0200
From: Florian Weimer <fw@...eb.enyo.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: weak use of crypto in python-elixir can lead to information disclosure (CVE and peer review request)
* Florian Weimer:
> * Vincent Danen:
>
>>>And you can group by encrypted column values in the database. That's
>>>why I'm not sure if it's actually possible to address this issue in a
>>>satisfying manner.
>>
>> So the encryption can be more fine-grained than just per-table? You can
>> also do it per-column? If that's the case, this does sound a lot uglier
>> to deal with.
>
> This test case suggests to me that you have to specify the list of
> encrypted columns explicitly:
>
> <http://elixir.ematia.de/trac/browser/elixir/trunk/tests/test_encryption.py>
>
> Based on this example, it's not clear to me if the current
> implementation supports get_by with an encrypted column. If this is a
> feature which needs preserving, there is no apparent way around
> convergent encryption.
So it turns out that this passes the assert:
p = Person.get_by(password='r\\x9d\\xa8\\xb4\\x8d|\\xffp\\xf5\\x0e')
assert p.name == 'Jonathan LaCour'
But this fails because p is None:
p = Person.get_by(ssn='123-45-6789')
assert p.name == 'Jonathan LaCour'
This suggests to me that get_by on an encrypted column is not actually
supported.
The documentation doesn't describe which queries are supported:
<http://elixir.ematia.de/apidocs/elixir.ext.encrypted.html>
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