[jira] [Commented] (OFBIZ-5659) Person.socialSecurityNumber can't be used for findByAnd

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[jira] [Commented] (OFBIZ-5659) Person.socialSecurityNumber can't be used for findByAnd

Nicolas Malin (Jira)

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Vyom Jain commented on OFBIZ-5659:
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By "so this particular feature has been broken for a very long time. In fact, at the time when this method was added, the code would have never had a chance of running at all." do you mean FinAccountHelper.getFinAccountFromCode() never worked earlier?
The method did work in earlier versions such as 09.04 & 10.04. It can be checked by either following steps for manual testing or using the unit test case in either of those versions.
In order to get this feature/ method to work once again in trunk, I had to use a hack/ workaround which was to change all references of handlers[0] to handlers[2] in framework/entity/src/org/ofbiz/entity/util/EntityCrypto.java. While data was still encrypted and stored, this approach of course does not have the advantage of kek implementation.

> Person.socialSecurityNumber can't be used for findByAnd
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>                 Key: OFBIZ-5659
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-5659
>             Project: OFBiz
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: framework
>    Affects Versions: SVN trunk, Release Branch 12.04, Release Branch 13.07
>            Reporter: Adam Heath
>            Assignee: Adam Heath
>
> In EntityCrypto, a random salt of bytes, with a random length between 5 and 16 characters, is added to each to-be-encrypted list of bytes.  This entire array is then encrypted, and stored.
> Because the salt prefix is random each time, including when subsequent findByAnd calls are used, the database has no chance to do an equality test, so never finds the record.
> This was done, so that the same exact value stored for different rows would encrypt to a different value; this was thought to be better for security.  It's based on how one-way password hashes work.
> My planned fix, is simple enough.  Just change the salt length to 0.  This will allow newly stored values to be looked up(with = or !=, but not with LIKE).  Existing values already stored will be fixed by iterating over all of them, then restoring in place.
> However, what I would really like to see, is this encrypted+salt feature configurable *per field*.  That will take a bit more time.
> ps: There is *no* test on lookups for Person.socialSecurityNumber; not even a test for a lookup on an encrypted field.  I'll obviously be adding that.



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