Re: RECOVERING FROM A BAD PASSPHRASE: PGPPBEEncryptedData.getDataStream(...)

Yep!

Regards,

David

On 9/1/19 12:54 pm, William Swartzendruber wrote:
> The best thing I could think of was to wrap the BcPGPObjectFactory in
> a BufferedInputStream and to mark() and reset() that.
>
> Is that what you meant?
>
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 5:05 PM David Hook <dgh-rTAZ0PM/[email protected]
> <mailto:dgh-rTAZ0PM/[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>
>     The issue here is that the PGP API is a streaming one, so having
>     started
>     decryption and failed, the data is already partially read. You need to
>     reset the stream to recover from an incorrect passphrase.
>
>     Regards,
>
>     David
>
>     On 12/12/18 5:01 pm, William Swartzendruber wrote:
>     > Hello:
>     >
>     > I am encountering an issue where attempting to unlock an encrypted
>     > data stream via PGPPBEEncryptedData.getDataStream(...) will
>     leave the
>     > instance in a bad state if the passphrase is incorrect. 
>     Attempting to
>     > get the data stream again results in:
>     >
>     > PGPDataValidationException("data check failed")
>     >
>     > Is there a way to recover from someone entering the incorrect
>     passphrase?
>     >
>     > This is bcpg-jdk15on-1.60
>     >
>     > I appreciate any assistance or clarification in this manner.
>
>
>