[NIFI-6536] Expose PGP symmetric encryption algorithm in EncryptContent

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.9.2
• Fix Version/s: 1.10.0
• Component/s: Extensions
• Labels: algorithm pgp security symmetric_cipher
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Brandon Rhys DeVries
• Created: 09/Aug/19 16:51
• Updated: 03/Sep/19 19:48
• Resolved: 03/Sep/19 18:04

Description

EncryptContent, when using PGP, is currently hard coded to use AES_128 as its symmetric key algorithm.  There is a TODO adjacent to this in the code [1]:

     // TODO: Refactor internal symmetric encryption algorithm to be customizable 

[1] https://github.com/apache/nifi/blob/master/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-standard-bundle/nifi-standard-processors/src/main/java/org/apache/nifi/security/util/crypto/OpenPGPKeyBasedEncryptor.java#L348

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #3664