[NIFI-1474] Enforce p boundary in Scrypt

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.5.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.10.0
• Component/s: Core Framework
• Labels: encryption security
• Assignee: Margot Tien
• Reporter: Andy LoPresto
• Created: 04/Feb/16 05:01
• Updated: 28/Oct/19 20:51
• Resolved: 26/Oct/19 00:32

Description

According to the Scrypt specification, there is a maximum boundary for p of (2^32 - 1) * 32 / MFlen. In practice, p almost always has a value of 1.

Issue Links

• is related to: NIFI-1257 Provide additional KDFs for EncryptContent
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #3844