Bug #78628 [Opn]: AES-256-XTS cipher method does not work

From: Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2019 19:45:00 +0000
Subject: Bug #78628 [Opn]: AES-256-XTS cipher method does not work
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 ID:                 78628
 Updated by:         bukka@php.net
 Reported by:        alec@php.net
 Summary:            AES-256-XTS cipher method does not work
 Status:             Open
 Type:               Bug
 Package:            OpenSSL related
 Operating System:   Linux
 PHP Version:        7.3.10
 Block user comment: N
 Private report:     N

 New Comment:

I think XTS needs a bit more handling so it's not fully supported. We could change this to the
request to add support for it but wondering what the actual use case for XTS is in PHP world?
It's mainly meant for disk encryption from what I know about this mode.


Previous Comments:
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[2019-10-04 11:06:27] alec@php.net

Additional info:
$ openssl list -cipher-algorithms | grep XTS
AES-128-XTS
AES-256-XTS

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[2019-10-03 11:10:13] alec@php.net

Description:
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Tested with various PHP versions (7.3.9 and 7.4.0beta4 and some older 7.x) on Ubuntu 18.04. This
originates from on of our users using PHP 7.3 on Debian Stable.

$php -r "print_r(openssl_get_cipher_methods());" | grep -i xts
    [12] => aes-128-xts
    [35] => aes-256-xts

However, if you see the test script openssl_enrypt() does not work, returns false. No error/warning.
The same for AES-128-XTS.

I'm not sure what is expected from OpenSSL in the system, but openssl ciphers -v | grep
XTS returns nothing.

Maybe that's not a bug, but I'd like to hear some explanation for this behavior.

Test script:
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$iv = random_bytes(openssl_cipher_iv_length("aes-256-XTS"));
echo openssl_encrypt("test", "aes-256-XTS", "key", OPENSSL_RAW_DATA,
$iv) === false;

Expected result:
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0

Actual result:
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1


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