[Swan-dev] test failure: IPsec encryption transform rejected: 3DES_CBC key_len 0 is incorrect

D. Hugh Redelmeier hugh at mimosa.com
Mon Jul 9 05:36:44 UTC 2018


I got a number of test failures with this in the pluto log (not the 
console log), repeated a lot:

"westnet-eastnet-ipv4-psk-ikev1" #1: the peer proposed: 192.0.2.0/24:0/0 -> 192.0.1.0/24:0/0
"westnet-eastnet-ipv4-psk-ikev1" #2: IPsec encryption transform rejected: 3DES_CBC key_len 0 is incorrect
"westnet-eastnet-ipv4-psk-ikev1" #2: sending encrypted notification BAD_PROPOSAL_SYNTAX to 192.1.2.45:500
"westnet-eastnet-ipv4-psk-ikev1" #2: deleting state (STATE_QUICK_R0) and NOT sending notification

The other side ignores it (again, from the pluto log).  Nothing
helpful showed up in the console (whack) log, I guess because the
informational was ignored, even though it was encrypted.

"westnet-eastnet-ipv4-psk-ikev1" #2: initiating Quick Mode PSK+ENCRYPT+TUNNEL+PFS+UP+IKEV1_ALLOW+SAREF_TRACK+IKE_FRAG_ALLOW+ESN_NO {using isakmp#1 msgi!
"westnet-eastnet-ipv4-psk-ikev1" #1: ignoring informational payload BAD_PROPOSAL_SYNTAX, msgid=00000000, length=12
"westnet-eastnet-ipv4-psk-ikev1" #1: received and ignored informational message
"westnet-eastnet-ipv4-psk-ikev1" #2: STATE_QUICK_I1: retransmission; will wait 0.5 seconds for response

This affected at least:
	algo-pluto-08
	fips-06-ikev1-3des-sha1
	ikev1-algo-05-3des-sha2
	ikev1-algo-ike-aes-02

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A slightly different failure: I also got this message in several pluto logs:

"westnet-eastnet-null" #1: the peer proposed: 192.0.2.0/24:0/0 -> 192.0.1.0/24:0/0
"westnet-eastnet-null" #2: IPsec encryption transform rejected: NULL key_len 0 is incorrect
"westnet-eastnet-null" #2: sending encrypted notification BAD_PROPOSAL_SYNTAX to 192.1.2.45:500
"westnet-eastnet-null" #2: deleting state (STATE_QUICK_R0) and NOT sending notification

This affected at least:
	netkey-algo-null-01
	netkey-algo-null-02


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