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No DES parity bits

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    • Type: Bug
    • Status: Closed
    • Priority: Minor
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • Affects Version/s: SoftHSM 2.x develop
    • Fix Version/s: None
    • Component/s: PKCS#11 Interface
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      Description

      A 64-bits DES key is composed by 8 bytes, each byte containing 7 bits from an RNG and 1 parity bit. The parity bit is never set.
      A DES key generation should perform random generation only for the key material (ie 56 bits) ; it is done in SymmetricAlgorithm::generateKey under the assumption key.getBitLen () = 56.
      Then key.setKeyBits (keyBits) should copy the 56 random bits and set the 8 parity bits.
      In DESKey::setKeyBits, it is checked wether the supplied bit length is equal to the key length (the variable expectedLen = 8 bytes) rather than keylen-parityBitsNumber/8. Furthermore, the key is built directly from the supplied random bits, without any parity bits.

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            Assignee:
            rickard Rickard Bellgrim
            Reporter:
            adahan Audrey Dahan
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