How to Solve: Warning: Deprecated Key Derivation Used. Using -Iter or -Pbkdf2 Would Be Better
I Am Using Openssl Version 1.1.1B (26 Feb 2019) to Encrypt/Decrypt Files. Everything Is Working Fine but I Am Getting a Warning I Do Not Understand. Openssl...
I am using OpenSSL version 1.1.1b (26 Feb 2019) to encrypt/decrypt files.
Everything is working fine but I am getting a Warning I do not understand.
openssl enc -d -aes-256-cbc -a -pass pass:$pwd -in $file
*** WARNING : deprecated key derivation used.
Using -iter or -pbkdf2 would be better.
Can anyone explain to me what is it about and how to solve it?
2 Answers
The file was probably encrypted by LibreSSL (using Mac?) and you are decrypting it with OpenSSL (Linux).
You don't face this problem if you encrypt and decrypt using LibreSSL for both.
The warning is happening due to improvements since version 1.1.0 of OpenSSL, (and was already explained a few months before in this answer)
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