Bug #54856 Passsword decryption doesnt work-returns a BLOB object
Submitted: 28 Jun 2010 8:18 Modified: 28 Jun 2010 10:41
Reporter: Abhilash Shah Email Updates:
Status: Verified Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: General Severity:S2 (Serious)
Version:5.0.77, 5.5.6-m3 OS:Linux (4.0)
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any

[28 Jun 2010 8:18] Abhilash Shah
Description:
Environment:
OS- RHEL 4 , Mysql InnoDB 5.0.77

Problem:

Encryption takes place but decryption is always returned as a BLOB
Steps:-
update V2RCPCAN.RCPUser set PWD=ees_encrypt('test123','spam') where userid = 'joe';

--> 1 rows affected

SELECT aes_decrypt(PWD, 'spam')) FROM RCPUser WHERE userid = 'joe';
--> BLOB

How to repeat:
Steps:- run the below queries in any test user table

update V2RCPCAN.RCPUser set PWD=ees_encrypt('test123','spam') where userid = 'joe';

--> 1 rows affected

SELECT aes_decrypt(PWD, 'spam')) FROM RCPUser WHERE userid = 'joe';
--> BLOB
[28 Jun 2010 8:18] Abhilash Shah
Steps:-
update V2RCPCAN.RCPUser set PWD=ees_encrypt('test123','spam') where userid = 'joe';

--> 1 rows affected

SELECT aes_decrypt(PWD, 'spam')) FROM RCPUser WHERE userid = 'joe';
--> BLOB
[28 Jun 2010 8:21] Tonci Grgin
This should be a duplicate of Bug#54684
[28 Jun 2010 9:00] Valeriy Kravchuk
Verified with mysql-trunk also:

valeriy-kravchuks-macbook-pro:trunk openxs$ bin/mysql -uroot --column-type test
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Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 21
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mysql> SELECT aes_decrypt(aes_encrypt('test','spam'), 'spam');
Field   1:  `aes_decrypt(aes_encrypt('test','spam'), 'spam')`
Catalog:    `def`
Database:   ``
Table:      ``
Org_table:  ``
Type:       VAR_STRING
Collation:  binary (63)
Length:     16
Max_length: 4
Decimals:   31
Flags:      BINARY 

+-------------------------------------------------+
| aes_decrypt(aes_encrypt('test','spam'), 'spam') |
+-------------------------------------------------+
| test                                            |
+-------------------------------------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

Manual (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/encryption-functions.html#function_aes-decrypt) does NOT say that aes_decrypt() always return a binary string, so I'd call this a bug.
[28 Jun 2010 10:41] Abhilash Shah
Ok, somehow it got working thanks to all please close this thread. But it still doesn't work in mysql wb.