Req #67304 [Asn]: openssl_decrypt fails with GCM mode

From: Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2015 23:25:08 +0000
Subject: Req #67304 [Asn]: openssl_decrypt fails with GCM mode
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 ID:                 67304
 Updated by:         bukka@php.net
 Reported by:        birki456 at hotmail dot com
 Summary:            openssl_decrypt fails with GCM mode
 Status:             Assigned
 Type:               Feature/Change Request
 Package:            OpenSSL related
 Operating System:   all
 PHP Version:        5.5.12
 Assigned To:        bukka
 Block user comment: N
 Private report:     N

 New Comment:

I have been slowly working on it and should be hopefuly ready for 7.1:

The progress can be seen here:

https://github.com/php/php-src/compare/master...bukka:openssl_aead


Previous Comments:
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[2015-11-16 13:38:29] albertcasademont at gmail dot com

This would be indeed very useful. Right now we have to do it in 2 steps with an hmac

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[2014-05-19 17:00:18] birki456 at hotmail dot com

Description:
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While the gcm mode (which is authenticated encryption) is reported in openssl_get_cipher_methods()
(e.g. [106] => aes-256-gcm), neither openssl_encrypt nor openssl_decrypt support it. There simply
is no code to supply/return the authentication tag. It should be fairly simple to add however it
possibly requires a change of the return type, because ciphertext and tag need to be returned in the
encryption case and ciphertext and tag need to be supplied for decryption. It should also be
possible to distinguish between decryption failure due to authentication failure vs. other failure.

The code below *should*, as last line, print 'recovered: Hello World', however decryption
with gcm always fails.

Test script:
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echo print_r(openssl_get_cipher_methods(), true);

$cipher = 'aes-256-gcm';

$ivlen = openssl_cipher_iv_length($cipher);

echo "iv len: " . $ivlen . "\n";

$iv = openssl_random_pseudo_bytes($ivlen);
$hexiv = bin2hex($iv);

echo "iv: " . $hexiv . "\n";

$plaintext = "Hello World";

echo "plaintext: " . $plaintext . "\n";

$clearpass = 'passphrase';
$pbkdfsalt = openssl_random_pseudo_bytes(16);
$password = hash_pbkdf2('sha256', $clearpass, $pbkdfsalt, 1001, 32, true);

echo "clearpass: " . $clearpass . "\n";
echo "pbkdfsalt: " . bin2hex($pbkdfsalt) . "\n";
echo "password: " . bin2hex($password) . "\n";

// This is the important part:
$ciphertext = openssl_encrypt($plaintext, $cipher, $password, 0, $iv);

echo "ciphertext: " . print_r($ciphertext, true) . "\n";

$recovered = openssl_decrypt($ciphertext, $cipher, $password, 0, $iv);

echo "recovered: " . $recovered . "\n";




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