What does the message "The system has been asked to decrypt data that has no encryption type tag. Returning unencrypted string." mean?

Products

• CA Single Sign On Secure Proxy Server (SiteMinder)
• CA Single Sign On SOA Security Manager (SiteMinder)
• CA Single Sign-On

Issue/Introduction

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.

Environment

Release:
Component: SMPLC