BadPaddingException related to PBEWithMD5AndDESCipher trying to initalize vault in EAP 6 or 7

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Issue

  • Using vault is giving BadPaddingException related to PBEWithMD5AndDESCipher trying to initalize PicketBoxSecurityVault:
  • Exception similar to:

    Caused by: javax.crypto.BadPaddingException: Given final block not properly padded
        at com.sun.crypto.provider.CipherCore.doFinal(CipherCore.java:975)
        at com.sun.crypto.provider.CipherCore.doFinal(CipherCore.java:833)
        at com.sun.crypto.provider.PBES1Core.doFinal(PBES1Core.java:416)
        at com.sun.crypto.provider.BadPaddingException.engineDoFinal(PBEWithMD5AndDESCipher.java:316)
        at javax.crypto.Cipher.doFinal(Cipher.java:2165)
        at org.jboss.security.plugins.PBEUtils.decode(PBEUtils.java:73)
        at org.jboss.security.plugins.PBEUtils.decode64(PBEUtils.java:90)
        at org.picketbox.plugins.vault.PicketBoxSecurityVault.decode(PicketBoxSecurityVault.java:362)
        at org.picketbox.plugins.vault.PicketBoxSecurityVault.loadKeystorePassword(PicketBoxSecurityVault.java:339)
        at org.picketbox.plugins.vault.PicketBoxSecurityVault.init(PicketBoxSecurityVault.java:204)
    

Environment

  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7

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