fs,crypto: AAD decryption of fs stream > 32768 bytes fails

[fenying]

• Node.js Version: v12.15.0
• OS: Linux 5.5.2-arch1-1
• Scope (install, code, runtime, meta, other?): code
• Module (and version) (if relevant): crypto (openssl: '1.1.1d')

With a 32768 bytes message, the AES-128-CCM cipher and decipher both work well.
With a 32769 bytes message, the AES-128-CCM cipher works well, but the decipher failed with a message:

Error: Unsupported state or unable to authenticate data
 at Decipheriv._flush (internal/crypto/cipher.js:139:29)
 at Decipheriv.prefinish (_stream_transform.js:140:10)
 at Decipheriv.emit (events.js:223:5)
 at prefinish (_stream_writable.js:670:14)
 at finishMaybe (_stream_writable.js:678:5)
 at endWritable (_stream_writable.js:698:3)
 at Decipheriv.Writable.end (_stream_writable.js:627:5)
 at ReadStream.onend (_stream_readable.js:693:10)
 at Object.onceWrapper (events.js:312:28)
 at ReadStream.emit (events.js:228:7)

I can't understand why. Whatever I change the AAD/IV/authTagLength, it can‘t work.

Here is my code:

// execute after: dd if=/dev/random of=random.bin count=1 bs=32769
const $Crypto = require("crypto");
const $fs = require("fs");

const key = $Crypto.randomBytes(16);

const iv = $Crypto.randomBytes(8);

const aad = $Crypto.randomBytes(1);

const stream = $Crypto.createCipheriv("aes-128-ccm", key, iv, {
 authTagLength: 16
});

stream.setAAD(aad, {
 plaintextLength: 32769
});

$fs.createReadStream("./random.bin").pipe(stream).pipe(
 $fs.createWriteStream("./random.bin.ciphertext")
).on("finish", function() {

 console.info("encrypted");

 const destream = $Crypto.createDecipheriv("aes-128-ccm", key, iv, {
 authTagLength: 16
 });
 
 destream.setAAD(aad, {
 plaintextLength: 32769
 });

 destream.setAuthTag(stream.getAuthTag());
 
 $fs.createReadStream("./random.bin.ciphertext").pipe(destream).pipe(
 $fs.createWriteStream("./random.bin.plaintext")
 );
});

[bnoordhuis]

See here - the maximum message size is a function of the IV size. Make it bigger and it'll work.

[fenying]

@bnoordhuis Thx guy, but I have read this article and tried it before. And It doesn't work even if I increase the length of IV to 13 bytes, which is the maximum length of CCM IV.

const iv = $Crypto.randomBytes(13);

[bnoordhuis]

I'm moving this to nodejs/node because this looks like a timing related bug with fs streams. I can reproduce what you're describing but also observe that AAD decryption works with other stream types.

[bnoordhuis]

I don't have time to investigate right now but I've opened #31734 with a known issues test as a starting point for others.

[fenying]

@bnoordhuis Okay, Thanks.