Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=68238&edit=1

 ID:                 68238
 Comment by:         gm dot outside+php at gmail dot com
 Reported by:        gm dot outside+php at gmail dot com
 Summary:            mcrypt_encode tests are broken
 Status:             Not a bug
 Type:               Bug
 Package:            Testing related
 Operating System:   Linux
 PHP Version:        5.6.1
 Block user comment: N
 Private report:     N

 New Comment:

Re: bug #67286 - well, the change to the behaviour as it is now is incompatible 
with the documentation at http://php.net/manual/en/function.mcrypt-encrypt.php, 
so there people will report bugs against this behaviour.  Moreover, the change 
is breaking things -- a warning message is one thing, but the function was 
changed to bail out with a failure upon a discovery of incorrect key size.  
This is the problem, actually.

Re: test case.  Yes, the test case was added on Mar 5th (you committed it 2 
days later), but it's currently broken in the HEAD, so I'm curious how one 
could do proper unit testing there :).

Re: 5.5.12 - no, I didn't run the exact same test, but OctoberCMS I'm running 
on that box stopped to work after switching to 5.6.1.  By default that 
application was using the MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_128 cipher and that cipher was no 
longer working (the same application, the same mcrypt library, and the only 
change was PHP).  This is the reason I started to investigate.

Finally, I'm going to run the same test case on my PHP 5.5.12 and will report 
back shortly.  Still, it's strange to have a broken test for something that 
important as encryption.


Previous Comments:
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[2014-10-15 18:43:11] ni...@php.net

The bug you linked has nothing to do with issue, it is a generic complaint from 
someone using broken crypto code, which is rejected by the stricter input 
requirements in PHP 5.6.

When you say that mcrypt_encrypt on your PHP 5.5.12 build works correctly, do 
you mean that it provides the correct output for this test script (whereas PHP 
5.6 does not)? This test was only added in PHP 5.6, so just running `make test` 
will not be enough to check it - you have to manually run the file from the 5.6 
tree.

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[2014-10-15 18:36:06] gm dot outside+php at gmail dot com

Related To: Bug #67286

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[2014-10-15 18:30:09] gm dot outside+php at gmail dot com

@nikic, I'm running the latest available mcrypt, which is 2.5.8.  The library 
passed all its internal tests.  Also, PHP 5.5.12 is working on the same box and 
does not have any issues with mcrypt_encode().

Additionally to this there are other bug reports pointing to the same issue, 
e.g. bug #67286 , so I would not dismiss this bug this easy.

Finally, the gcov test at php.net itself is failing the test on mcrypt.  The 
following tests was performed less than 2 days ago: 
http://gcov.php.net/viewer.php?version=PHP_HEAD&func=tests&file=ext%2Fmcrypt%2Ftests%2Fbug62102_rfc2144.phpt

So, let's try to pinpoint the issue? :)  Or at least let's fix the test case...

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[2014-10-15 18:12:49] ni...@php.net

This is a bug in your mcrypt library, which does not properly support Cast-128 
with keys <= 80 bits. Padding the keys with NUL bytes is not the same, because  
Cast-128 uses only 12 rounds (instead of 16) if the key is <= 80 bits.

Updating your libmcrypt version will probably fix this.

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[2014-10-15 17:32:24] gm dot outside+php at gmail dot com

I did more testing, and I was a bit wrong about the strlen() part.  Manually 
padding the keys with '\0' actually works, but the result does not match the 
ciphertext provided in RFC-2144 B.1 anymore.  Additionally to that I was wrong 
re: the keysize requirement for that cipher should be 16 bytes (128-bit) as 
cipher's name 'cast-128' suggests.

Once the keys are properly padded with '\0' to be 128-bit the test returns the 
following differences:

002+ 80-bit: 753de29f5d167d03
003+ 40-bit: f00b0530833d7444
002- 80-bit: eb6a711a2c02271b
003- 40-bit: 7ac816d16e9b302e

So, something else was also changed that the mcrypt extension no longer 
conforms to RFC-2144 B.1.

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