I'm getting a
InvalidKeyException: Illegal key size or default parameters
when trying to run a web app that is was a deployed WAR. I am hosting it on Tomcat in a Linux environment. I have already put the two UnlimitedJCEPolicy files into the destination /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.55.x86_64/jre/lib/security, and it seems that the error is still occuring. NOTE that this only is thrown when I am running in the linux environment. Locally, it works fine. Here is my code:
public static final void decryptFile(File inputFile, File outputFile) throws
IOException, PGPException {
// Add Bouncy Castle provider
Security.addProvider(new BouncyCastleProvider());
// Grab secret key that's in folder with AE classes
Resource resource = new ClassPathResource(Env.getSecretKeyAE());
log.debug("Resource: " + Env.getSecretKeyAE());
File keyFileName = resource.getFile();
log.debug("Key File Name: " + keyFileName);
// Decryption password
String pass = "pass";
char[] passwd = pass.toCharArray();
// Read files into streams
log.info("Reading files into streams");
InputStream keyIn = new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream(keyFileName));
InputStream in = PGPUtil.getDecoderStream(new BufferedInputStream(new
FileInputStream(inputFile)));
// I don't even know what these do
PGPObjectFactory pgpObjFactory = new PGPObjectFactory(in);
PGPEncryptedDataList pgpEncryptedDataList = null;
Object o = pgpObjFactory.nextObject();
log.info("Checking instance of PGPEncryptedDataList");
if (o instanceof PGPEncryptedDataList) {
pgpEncryptedDataList = (PGPEncryptedDataList)o;
}
else {
pgpEncryptedDataList = (PGPEncryptedDataList)pgpObjFactory.nextObject();
}
// This will be the PGPPrivateKey we use to decrypt
log.info("Initializing secret key");
PGPPrivateKey secretKey = null;
PGPPublicKeyEncryptedData publicKeyEncryptedData = null;
PGPSecretKeyRingCollection pgpSecretKeyRingCollection = new
PGPSecretKeyRingCollection(PGPUtil.getDecoderStream(keyIn));
// This iterates the key file as if it has many keys, this file has only one
// This is the only way I could find to construct a PGPPrivateKey
log.info("Iterating through key file");
Iterator<?> it = pgpEncryptedDataList.getEncryptedDataObjects();
while(it.hasNext() && secretKey == null) {
publicKeyEncryptedData = (PGPPublicKeyEncryptedData) it.next();
PGPSecretKey pgpSecKey =
pgpSecretKeyRingCollection.getSecretKey(publicKeyEncryptedData.getKeyID());
if (pgpSecKey != null) {
Provider provider = Security.getProvider("BC");
secretKey = pgpSecKey.extractPrivateKey(new
JcePBESecretKeyDecryptorBuilder(new
JcaPGPDigestCalculatorProviderBuilder().setProvider(provider)
.build()).setProvider(provider).build(passwd));
}
}
log.info("PGPPrivateKey has been constructed");
if (secretKey == null) {
throw new IllegalArgumentException("secret key for message not found.");
}
log.info("Secret Key found!");
if(publicKeyEncryptedData == null) {
throw new NullPointerException("cannot continue with null public key encryption
data.");
}
log.info("Public Key Encrypted Data found!");
// More stuff I don't fully understand, I think this is just standard way to
decrypt files once the above is all set up
log.info("Starting actual decryption");
//get data stream where our publicKeyDataDecrypterFactory sets ours provider to BC
and we build our secretKey
//secretkey is our PGPPrivateKey
log.info("start");
//=====================================================================
//ERROR IS OCCURRING HERE
InputStream clear = publicKeyEncryptedData.getDataStream(new
JcePublicKeyDataDecryptorFactoryBuilder().setProvider("BC").build(secretKey));
log.info("1");
PGPObjectFactory plainFact = new PGPObjectFactory(clear);
log.info("2");
PGPCompressedData compressedData = (PGPCompressedData)plainFact.nextObject();
log.info("3");
InputStream compressedStream = new
BufferedInputStream(compressedData.getDataStream());
log.info("4");
PGPObjectFactory pgpFact = new PGPObjectFactory(compressedStream);
log.info("5");
Object message = pgpFact.nextObject();
log.info("6");
if (message instanceof PGPLiteralData) {
log.info("Our message is an instance of PGP Literal Data.");
PGPLiteralData literalData = (PGPLiteralData)message;
InputStream literalDataInputStream = literalData.getInputStream();
OutputStream out = new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(outputFile));
Streams.pipeAll(literalDataInputStream, out);
out.close();
}
else if (message instanceof PGPOnePassSignatureList) {
log.error("encrypted message contains a signed message - not literal data.");
throw new PGPException("encrypted message contains a signed message - not
literal data.");
}
else {
log.error("message is not a simple encrypted file - type unknown.");
throw new PGPException("message is not a simple encrypted file - type
unknown.");
}
log.info("Checking if public key encrypted data is integrity protected");
if (publicKeyEncryptedData.isIntegrityProtected()) {
if (!publicKeyEncryptedData.verify()) {
throw new PGPException("message failed integrity check");
}
}
keyIn.close();
in.close();
}
Using logs, I was able to find that the error was occurring when
InputStream clear = publicKeyEncryptedData.getDataStream(new
JcePublicKeyDataDecryptorFactoryBuilder().setProvider("BC").build(secretKey));
But I have no clue why. Like I said, I already placed the JCEUnlimited files appropriately and the error still occurs.
EDIT I fixed the illegal key size problem, but am now getting "key spec not recognized"
EDIT More elaboration on the error "key spec not recognized": So as I said, Illegal key size is gone, but "key spec not recognized" seems to be a problem still. The weird thing is that my encryptFile method works perfectly, but decryptFile is throwing the error. I'm not entirely sure why. Before I left work, I tested one more time and it seems that the error wasn't thrown. I almost seems like this error occurs randomly depending on the deployment of the WAR to tomcat. If I deploy my WAR, the error wont occur at some points, but if I undeploy and redeploy with an updated WAR file, the error is thrown. I have no clue what is causing this, and the based off research no one really knows either. Apparently this used to be a bug in Bouncy Castle before 1.5, but 1.5 is the version I'm running so that's not the problem. I will post if I find anything that can possibly fix this error.
To prevent the error "Illegal key size or default parameters", I simply had to put the UnlimitedJCEPolicy files in my working java directory, /opt/jre1.7.0_60/lib/security. After putting the files there, and redeploying my war file, I was not experiencing this problem anymore.
To prevent the "key spec not recognized" error, I had to restart my tomcat server when redeploying my WAR file.