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rfc:mcrypt-viking-funeral [2016/03/16 17:26] sarciszewskirfc:mcrypt-viking-funeral [2017/09/22 13:28] (current) – external edit 127.0.0.1
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   * Date: 2016-01-09   * Date: 2016-01-09
   * Author: Scott Arciszewski, security@paragonie.com   * Author: Scott Arciszewski, security@paragonie.com
-  * Status: Voting+  * Status: Implemented (PHP 7.1)
   * First Published at: http://wiki.php.net/rfc/mcrypt-viking-funeral   * First Published at: http://wiki.php.net/rfc/mcrypt-viking-funeral
  
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 Problems with this code: Problems with this code:
-  +
   * It's using [[https://blog.filippo.io/the-ecb-penguin|ECB Mode]]   * It's using [[https://blog.filippo.io/the-ecb-penguin|ECB Mode]]
   * It's attempting to generate an IV for ECB mode (which is a waste of CPU since IVs aren't used in ECB mode)   * It's attempting to generate an IV for ECB mode (which is a waste of CPU since IVs aren't used in ECB mode)
   * It's using MCRYPT_RAND for IV generation, which isn't a CSPRNG   * It's using MCRYPT_RAND for IV generation, which isn't a CSPRNG
   * fnEncrypt() will rtrim() null bytes off the encrypted value before base64 encoding it, which means a 1/256 chance of data corruption that prevents decryption   * fnEncrypt() will rtrim() null bytes off the encrypted value before base64 encoding it, which means a 1/256 chance of data corruption that prevents decryption
-  * fnDecrypt() will rtrim() null bytes off the decrypted plaintext, which means if your plaintext message was raw binary (e.g. gzip compressed), it's now irrecoverable+  * fnDecrypt() will rtrim() null bytes off the decrypted plaintext, which means if your plaintext message was raw binary (e.g. gzip compressed), it's now corrupted
   * There is no MAC, so you transmit this over a network, [[https://tonyarcieri.com/all-the-crypto-code-youve-ever-written-is-probably-broken|it's vulnerable to chosen-ciphertext attacks]]   * There is no MAC, so you transmit this over a network, [[https://tonyarcieri.com/all-the-crypto-code-youve-ever-written-is-probably-broken|it's vulnerable to chosen-ciphertext attacks]]
  
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 Since this would break backwards compatibility, a 2/3 majority is required. Since this would break backwards compatibility, a 2/3 majority is required.
  
-<doodle title="Deprecate then Remove Mcrypt from the PHP Core?" auth="sarciszewski" voteType="single" closed="false">+<doodle title="Deprecate then Remove Mcrypt from the PHP Core?" auth="sarciszewski" voteType="single" closed="true">
    * Yes    * Yes
    * No    * No
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 ===== Patches and Tests ===== ===== Patches and Tests =====
  
-If this RFC is accepted, I will author the patches to deprecate ext/mcrypt.+Patches are available:  
 +  * <del><https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/1995></del> 
 +  * <https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/1996> (merged)
  
 ===== References ===== ===== References =====
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