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Bug #3710

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make key derivation use full unicode

Added by hans over 3 years ago. Updated over 3 years ago.

Status:NewStart date:09/04/2014
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Description

A bug in Android's javax.crypto.SecretKeyFactory prevents it from using anything but the first 8-bits of any unicode character. For now, there is a workaround in place (#3664), but ideally cacheword would use all the bits from the password when deriving a key.

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Related issues

Related to CacheWord - Task #3664: handle PBKDF2WithHmacSHA1 changes in 4.4 New 08/22/2014
Related to IOCipher - Bug #3174: Expose password changing API in Java New 04/01/2014

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#1 Updated by hans over 3 years ago

Also, this means that the resulting key will change, so that means that any SQLCipher or IOCipher databases will need to be rekeyed.

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