Created attachment 150148 [details]
minimal poc code in C

Calling ecb_crypt()/cbc_crypt() actually does not encrypt or decrypt the passed data buffer but returns a [DESERR_NOHWDEVICE] " == Encryption succeeded, but done in software".

See attached poc.c

Details:

Component: des_crypt, /usr/src/lib/libc/rpc/des_crypt.c
OS: FreeBSD 10.1 STABLE

man ecb_crypt(3) says "The ecb_crypt() and cbc_crypt() functions implement the NBS DES ... The ecb_crypt() function encrypts in ECB (Electronic Code
Book) mode, which encrypts blocks of data independently.  The cbc_crypt()
function encrypts in CBC (Cipher Block Chaining) mode, which chains
together successive blocks."

but actually - "nothing happens" and "it doesn't work!(tm)" (the return code suggests a successfull encryption stept but the data remains unmodified)

How to reproduce:
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#define LEN 8
char key1[LEN] = "testkey1";
char secret1[LEN] = "secret 1";

des_setparity(key1);
ecb_crypt(key1, secret1, LEN, DES_ENCRYPT);
printf("ecb_crypt result: key: %.*s, encrypted buf: %.*s\n", LEN, key1, LEN, secret1);
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see the poc.c for a minimal example.

PS: And no, I am not using ecb/cbc_crypt in my software ;) - some time ago I tried to implement some kind of a "master password" extension for claws-mail (e-mail client). I was surprised by the fact, that the passwords for email-accouts are stored in plain text (encoded in base64) and not obfuscated with DES-foo-magic (DES-encryption with hard-coded password, mentioned multiple times in claws mailing list) - it turned out, that claws-mail's code for password obfuscation calls ecb_crypt on FreeBSD.