Jasypt: Encryption successful but decryption fails for stronger algorithms

Question

I am using Jasypt's CLI for testing encryption and decryption. The encryption is successful for all the algorithms but decryption fails for stronger algorithms. Here is the encryption and decryption for PBEWithMD5AndDES:

Encryption:

prakash@prakash:~$ java -cp ~/.m2/repository/org/jasypt/jasypt/1.9.2/jasypt-1.9.2.jar  org.jasypt.intf.cli.JasyptPBEStringEncryptionCLI password=secret algorithm=PBEWITHMD5ANDDES input=encryptThis

----ENVIRONMENT-----------------

Runtime: Oracle Corporation OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM 11.0.2+9-Ubuntu-3ubuntu118.04.3 



----ARGUMENTS-------------------

input: encryptThis
password: secret
algorithm: PBEWITHMD5ANDDES



----OUTPUT----------------------

pZRJ9Egt+OcjBX28cSJUYDbvqiKIUVxR

Decryption:

prakash@prakash:~$ java -cp ~/.m2/repository/org/jasypt/jasypt/1.9.2/jasypt-1.9.2.jar  org.jasypt.intf.cli.JasyptPBEStringDecryptionCLI password=secret algorithm=PBEWITHMD5ANDDES input=pZRJ9Egt+OcjBX28cSJUYDbvqiKIUVxR

----ENVIRONMENT-----------------

Runtime: Oracle Corporation OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM 11.0.2+9-Ubuntu-3ubuntu118.04.3 



----ARGUMENTS-------------------

input: pZRJ9Egt+OcjBX28cSJUYDbvqiKIUVxR
password: secret
algorithm: PBEWITHMD5ANDDES



----OUTPUT----------------------

encryptThis

Now If I change the algorithm to PBEWITHHMACSHA1ANDAES_128, here are the results:

Encryption:

prakash@prakash:~$ java -cp ~/.m2/repository/org/jasypt/jasypt/1.9.2/jasypt-1.9.2.jar  org.jasypt.intf.cli.JasyptPBEStringEncryptionCLI password=secret algorithm=PBEWITHHMACSHA1ANDAES_128 input=encryptThis

----ENVIRONMENT-----------------

Runtime: Oracle Corporation OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM 11.0.2+9-Ubuntu-3ubuntu118.04.3 



----ARGUMENTS-------------------

input: encryptThis
password: secret
algorithm: PBEWITHHMACSHA1ANDAES_128



----OUTPUT----------------------

tAIe6mUS6uBCG/OkHJWT2LWRagHOMBxwK/v9L7SGZIA=

Decryption:

prakash@prakash:~$ java -cp ~/.m2/repository/org/jasypt/jasypt/1.9.2/jasypt-1.9.2.jar  org.jasypt.intf.cli.JasyptPBEStringDecryptionCLI password=secret algorithm=PBEWITHHMACSHA1ANDAES_128 input=tAIe6mUS6uBCG/OkHJWT2LWRagHOMBxwK/v9L7SGZIA=

----ENVIRONMENT-----------------

Runtime: Oracle Corporation OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM 11.0.2+9-Ubuntu-3ubuntu118.04.3 



----ARGUMENTS-------------------

input: tAIe6mUS6uBCG/OkHJWT2LWRagHOMBxwK/v9L7SGZIA=
password: secret
algorithm: PBEWITHHMACSHA1ANDAES_128



----ERROR-----------------------

Operation not possible (Bad input or parameters)

The jasypt version I'm using is 2.0.0 and I've tried this on both java-8 and java-11. In both the machines I've JCE's unlimited strength policy enabled.

The list of Algorithms that were decrypted successfully are: PBEWITHMD5ANDDES, PBEWITHMD5ANDTRIPLEDES, PBEWITHSHA1ANDDESEDE, PBEWITHSHA1ANDRC2_128, PBEWITHSHA1ANDRC2_40, PBEWITHSHA1ANDRC4_128, PBEWITHSHA1ANDRC4_40. The algorithms with which decryption fails are: PBEWITHHMACSHA1ANDAES_128
PBEWITHHMACSHA1ANDAES_256
PBEWITHHMACSHA224ANDAES_128 PBEWITHHMACSHA224ANDAES_256 PBEWITHHMACSHA256ANDAES_128 PBEWITHHMACSHA256ANDAES_256 PBEWITHHMACSHA384ANDAES_128 PBEWITHHMACSHA384ANDAES_256 PBEWITHHMACSHA512ANDAES_128 PBEWITHHMACSHA512ANDAES_256.

I've been stuck at this problem for three days. Someone please help me out!

Edit: After suggestions from Maarten, I went ahead and copied the code from JasyptPBEStringDecryptionCLI and made my own class in hope to reproduce the error through code and get the stacktrace. Here is the code I wrote:

package com.example.HelloWorldApiUbuntu;
import java.util.Properties;
import org.jasypt.intf.service.JasyptStatelessService;

public class TestingJasyptStringDecryptionCLI {
    public static void main(final String[] args) throws Exception{

        final JasyptStatelessService service = new JasyptStatelessService();
        String input = "P/25Hp3CKdFj7pz85eJyHETugwX5ZxWEF7PpzJ/fBGI=";

        final String result =
            service.decrypt(
                    input, 
                    "secret",
                    null,
                    null,
                    "PBEWITHHMACSHA512ANDAES_128",
                    null,
                    null,
                    "1000",
                    null,
                    null,
                    "org.jasypt.salt.RandomSaltGenerator",
                    null,
                    null,
                    "SunJCE",
                    null,
                    null,
                    /*argumentValues.getProperty(ArgumentNaming.ARG_PROVIDER_CLASS_NAME)*/null,
                    null,
                    null,
                    /*argumentValues.getProperty(ArgumentNaming.ARG_STRING_OUTPUT_TYPE)*/null,
                    null,
                    null);

        System.out.println(result);
    }
}

This class produces same behaviour as JasyptPBEStringDecryptionCLI and works for same algorithms listed above and fails on stronger ones. Here is the little error stacktrace:

Exception in thread "main" org.jasypt.exceptions.EncryptionOperationNotPossibleException
    at org.jasypt.encryption.pbe.StandardPBEByteEncryptor.decrypt(StandardPBEByteEncryptor.java:1055)
    at org.jasypt.encryption.pbe.StandardPBEStringEncryptor.decrypt(StandardPBEStringEncryptor.java:725)
    at org.jasypt.intf.service.JasyptStatelessService.decrypt(JasyptStatelessService.java:595)
    at com.example.HelloWorldApiUbuntu.TestingJasyptStringDecryptionCLI.main(TestingJasyptStringDecryptionCLI.java:12)

I know the problem is with jasypt and not my java because I ran this code to test encryption-decryption on my local with stronger algorithms and it works perfectly.

Edit 2: I also tried the solution given at https://github.com/melloware/jasypt, it gives me the same result.

Answer 1

It works with Jasypt 1.9.3 with additional parameter ivGeneratorClassName=org.jasypt.iv.RandomIvGenerator

Encryption:

java -cp ~/.m2/repository/org/jasypt/jasypt/1.9.3/jasypt-1.9.2.jar  org.jasypt.intf.cli.JasyptPBEStringEncryptionCLI password=secret algorithm=PBEWITHHMACSHA1ANDAES_128 input=encryptThis ivGeneratorClassName=org.jasypt.iv.RandomIvGenerator

Decryption:

java -cp ~/.m2/repository/org/jasypt/jasypt/1.9.3/jasypt-1.9.2.jar  org.jasypt.intf.cli.JasyptPBEStringDecryptionCLI password=secret algorithm=PBEWITHHMACSHA1ANDAES_128 input=j5oaiHBv5RB8MOxQekM/b/AMWxgOCmgB91X/ObBpyA0lr57z7ecrcVGZN0LtcFan ivGeneratorClassName=org.jasypt.iv.RandomIvGenerator