[gnutls-devel] gnutls_cipher_decrypt2() is broken for AES-GCM

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos nmav at gnutls.org
Mon Jan 28 01:55:36 CET 2013


On 01/26/2013 06:40 PM, William McGovern wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> It seems that gnutls_cipher_decrypt2() does not work for the AES-GCM
> ciphers and does not generate any data in the output buffer or return
> any error code. In-place decryption of the same ciphertext with
> gnutls_cipher_decrypt() works correctly.


Thank you for reporting and for the code to reproduce. Indeed
gnutls_cipher_decrypt2() had a bug with AEAD ciphers. I've fixed that in
master.

https://gitorious.org/gnutls/gnutls/commit/bbb36bd8d5586d15f040d8415e5490d3bf75de71

regards,
Nikos



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