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  2. AS7-5275

Vault shared key is displaying the byte[] address

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      I added a secured attribute with vault.sh but the shared key looked suspicious:

      ********************************************
      Vault Block:HQ
      Attribute Name:thePass
      Shared Key:[B@52621f0c
      Configuration should be done as follows:
      VAULT::HQ::thePass::[B@52621f0c
      ********************************************
      

      Looking at VaultSession#attributeCreatedDisplay(), the byte[] handshakeKey is displayed by calling toString() => this displays its address, not a textual representation of the bytes.

      When the shared key is read in RuntimeVaultReader, we call String.getBytes() to get back the byte[].

      A simple fix is to display the handshakeKey with new String(handshakeKey).
      However this will work only if the default charset is the same on machines that store the secured attribute and read from it.
      It'd be safe to use always the same Charset (e.g. US-ASCII or UTF-8).

      I've raised the priority to critical since it is not possible to use any secured attribute if the handshake is not properly displayed

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            sguilhen Stefan Guilhen
            jmesnil1@redhat.com Jeff Mesnil
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