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Bug 1061412 - [RFE] Private keys encrypted with AES are unsupported
Summary: [RFE] Private keys encrypted with AES are unsupported
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: nss
Version: 7.1
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
low
low
Target Milestone: rc
: ---
Assignee: Elio Maldonado Batiz
QA Contact: BaseOS QE Security Team
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: 1295396
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-02-04 19:31 UTC by Hubert Kario
Modified: 2017-01-04 11:54 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Enhancement
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Last Closed: 2016-01-25 14:55:47 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Bugzilla 1051533 0 medium CLOSED curl unable to load openssl encrypted private key 2021-02-22 00:41:40 UTC

Internal Links: 1051533

Description Hubert Kario 2014-02-04 19:31:06 UTC 
Description of problem:
When the private key is placed in encrypted pem file, curl is unable to decrypt it and ends connection with NSS error -8178.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
nss-3.15.3-6.el6_5.x86_64
curl-7.19.7-37.el6_4.x86_64
openssl-1.0.1e-15.el6.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Generate key pair
2. Encrypt private key using `openssl rsa -aes128`
3. run curl with private key created in step 2

Actual results:
:: [ 19:24:57 ] :: [ INFO    ] :: The expected error value if the bug is not fixed is "-12205"
* About to connect() to localhost port 21 (#0)
*   Trying ::1... Connection refused
*   Trying 127.0.0.1... connected
* Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 21 (#0)
< 220 (vsFTPd 2.2.2)
> AUTH SSL
< 234 Proceed with negotiation.
* Initializing NSS with certpath: sql:/etc/pki/nssdb
*   CAfile: /etc/pki/CA/certs/ca_cert.pem
  CApath: none
* Unable to load client key -8178.
* NSS error -8178
* Closing connection #0

curl: (58) Unable to load client key -8178.

Expected results:
Connection established with client cert authentication

Additional info:

Private key is and encrypted PKCS#8 file, so it's not a duplicate of bug 1051533.

That is, the file starts with:
-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
Proc-Type: 4,ENCRYPTED
DEK-Info: AES-128-CBC,10CCFF835EC0173E4A90BE87AFA90806
Comment 1 Rob Crittenden 2014-02-05 15:15:47 UTC 
In RHEL 6 pemnss doesn't support this type of key at all. It is unrelated to the encryption scheme.

Support was added upstream but apparently not backported, http://fedorapeople.org/cgit/rcritten/public_git/pemnss.git/commit/?id=030f9ff85ec40167b5d885c980a44c090e5729d6
Comment 2 Rob Crittenden 2014-02-05 15:17:57 UTC 
Ah, nm, I misread the patch.
Comment 3 Nathan Kinder 2015-10-07 18:58:10 UTC 
We have no plans to add this feature in RHEL 6.x, as we have no customer request for it.  Pushing this to RHEL 7.x.
Comment 4 Elio Maldonado Batiz 2016-01-18 15:13:06 UTC 
This is a PEM module bug so Kai and I need need to get together on this as there has done some work on cleaning up the PEM module done in the temporary upstream  for PEM. We must coordinate. I consider this bug low priority.
Comment 6 Christopher Tubbs 2017-01-03 17:24:16 UTC 
This bug is high priority for users who depend heavily on PKI. AES would be strongly preferable to DES3. This seems to be a regression from the user's perspective (although it's probably the result of a newer version of curl using nss instead of openssl, rather than a regression in nss).

This bug is closed as "WONTFIX", but there's no explanation why it won't be fixed. It appears to still affect 7.3.
Comment 8 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos 2017-01-04 11:54:27 UTC 
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