[Mono-list] AES/CFB Stream Cipher Problem

[Drew DeVault]

I get access denied on that bug. As for the MS implementation, it's
compatible with the Java implementation, at least, so it's less likely to
be incorrect.

How should this be solved? I can't have this only work on Windows with
MS.NET.


On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Sebastien Pouliot <
sebastien.pouliot at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Drew,
>
> There was a bug filled yesterday, #9201 [1]. You might want to c.c.
> yourself to it.
>
> FWIW it's not really AES related. MS implementation(s) of CFB are a bit
> weird.
>
> RijndaelManaged does it differently than others .NET ciphers (which is
> what Mono supports), including AesCryptoServiceProvider (even when the
> former uses a 128 bits block size).
>
> AesManaged does not even support CFB (even if it was, once upon a
> time, documented as a wrapper on top of RijndaelManaged).
>
> Sebastien
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9201
>
> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Rodrigo Kumpera <kumpera at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Please file a bug in bugzilla.xamarin.com with a test case.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 11:00 PM, Drew DeVault <sircmpwn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm having an issue with Mono that does not appear on Microsoft.NET,
> >> related to AES/CFB encryption with no padding. Firstly, here's my Mono
> >> version:
> >>
> >> Mono JIT compiler version 2.10.8.1 (Debian 2.10.8.1-1ubuntu2.2)
> >> Copyright (C) 2002-2011 Novell, Inc, Xamarin, Inc and Contributors.
> >> www.mono-project.com
> >>         TLS:           __thread
> >>         SIGSEGV:       altstack
> >>         Notifications: epoll
> >>         Architecture:  amd64
> >>         Disabled:      none
> >>         Misc:          softdebug
> >>         LLVM:          supported, not enabled.
> >>         GC:            Included Boehm (with typed GC and Parallel Mark)
> >>
> >> Secondly, I would like to find a solution that does indeed work on this
> >> version of Mono, because most of my users are on the same version. The
> >> problem comes
> >> from using a CryptoStream with a RijndaelManaged cipher. I have
> attached a
> >> proof of concept to the email, along with the results of running it on
> >> Windows with
> >> Microsoft.NET and on Linux Mint 12 with Mono.
> >>
> >> The AesStream in the example comes from this project:
> >>
> https://github.com/SirCmpwn/Craft.Net/blob/master/Craft.Net/AesStream.cs
> >>
> >> In short, on Microsoft.NET, writing to the CryptoStream does indeed
> >> encrypt the data properly, where on Mono, no data is written, and an
> >> IndexOutOfBoundsException is thrown when trying to read the encrypted
> >> data.
> >>
> >> Drew DeVault
> >>
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