OTServer crashes if an invalid cached key is used during newserver creation.

[ghost]

I found the crash caused by entering the wrong key for the cached key. Here is an excerpt from gdb at the end of the otserver creation process:

BuildFolderPath: Made New Folder: /home/barry/.ot/server_data/contracts/ OTSymmetricKey::SerializeFrom: Error: host_is_generated, Bad value: 288. (Expected 0 or 1.) Passphrase request for: "We do not have a check hash yet for this password, please enter your password" (OT) passphrase: (Verifying) passphrase again:

[New Thread 0x7ffff3bdc700 (LWP 7227)] [Thread 0x7ffff3bdc700 (LWP 7227) exited]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. OTPassword::getPasswordSize (this=0x0) at OTPassword.cpp:766 (gdb)

The function that fails is:

uint32_t OTPassword::getPasswordSize() const { OT_ASSERT(m_bIsText); return m_nPasswordSize; }

The program is trying to access m_bIsText inside the OT_ASSERT macro, but the this pointer is NULL.

The call stack is: #0 OTPassword::getPasswordSize (this=0x0) at OTPassword.cpp:766 #1 0x00007ffff78360f5 in OTAsymmetricKey_OpenSSL::LoadPrivateKeyFromCertString (this=, strCert=..., bEscaped=, pstrReason=0x7fffffffc4c0, pImportPassword=0x0) at OTAsymmetricKey.cpp:659 #2 0x00007ffff785955e in OTKeyCredential::SetPrivateContents (this=0x671bf0, mapPrivate=..., pImportPassword=0x0) at OTCredential.cpp:2157 #3 0x00007ffff7858dd0 in OTSubcredential::ProcessXMLNode (this=0x671bf0, xml=@0x7fffffffca18: 0x675140) at OTCredential.cpp:1074 #4 0x00007ffff78590fe in OTMasterkey::ProcessXMLNode (this=0x671bf0, xml=@0x7fffffffca18: 0x675140) at OTCredential.cpp:1203 #5 0x00007ffff784ba96 in OTContract::LoadContractXML (this=0x671bf0) at OTContract.cpp:2280

[da2ce7]

If you are using the test server data. Then you must enter 'test' . Unfortunately the test server data was generated before we had the password checking code. If you enter the correct key the first time it will not let you make a mistake in the future.

[da2ce7]

When we update the sample / test data. This issue will go away. It is only an issue when migrating old data.