Description:
I'm running SiteMinder WAM UI R12 SP1 CR04 and I can see on regular bases the following message in the application server log:
<- Begin
12:47:31,069 WARN [ims.idmutils.crypto] The system has been asked to decrypt data that has no encryption type tag. Returning unencrypted string. 12:47:34,799 WARN [ims.idmutils.crypto] The system has been asked to decrypt data that has no encryption type tag. Returning unencrypted string. 12:47:34,999 WARN [ims.idmutils.crypto] The system has been asked to decrypt data that has no encryption type tag. Returning unencrypted string. 12:47:35,066 WARN [ims.idmutils.crypto] The system has been asked to decrypt data that has no encryption type tag. Returning unencrypted string.
-> End
Could you please explain what the above message means?
Solution:
This message occurs when a string is passed to the decryption routines and does not contain the encryption type prefix. In this case the decryption routines treat this as a non encrypted text string and pass on the value unchanged. A message is produced to indicate that such an event has occurred.