Help with assertion encryption ?

Brent Putman putmanb at georgetown.edu
Wed May 21 20:18:08 EDT 2014


On 5/21/14 3:30 PM, Brent Putman wrote:
>
>
> However, when I tried my full XMLCipher patch with Java 7 and BC and a
> real XML encryption case, it fails because after encryption,
> Cipher#getIV() returns null.  XMLCipher uses this to concatenate the
> IV to the encrypted bytes.
>
>
> I'm not very familiar with BC's codebase, but I'll try and track this
> down and at least see if the Cipher#getIV() issue is just a simple bug
> that could be fixed.
>

Actually looks like it might already be fixed in their next release 1.51:

http://www.bouncycastle.org/jira/browse/BJA-473


So I'll keep an eye on this when it comes out.  I don't see anything
about an ETA.

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