edge / cli

At the moment passphrases must be exactly 32 characters due to the cipher length requirement in aes-256-ctr which for short passwords is resolved by padding with zeroes:

cli/src/wallet/wallet.ts

Lines 41 to 44 in 27e0620

    
           /** 
        
            * Right-pad a passphrase input to ensure compatibility with the encryption cipher. 
        
            */ 
        
           const resizePassphrase = (passphrase: string): string => passphrase.padEnd(32, '0')

However, there is no elegant handling of too-long passwords, where an error is encountered instead while creating/restoring a wallet:

[critical] Error: Invalid key length {}

Possible solutions:

Indicate this limit more clearly in CLI and validate passphrase length during input, i.e. loop back, advise, and ask again, rather than stop the process
Find a way to use a larger encryption cipher - but without breaking existing wallets!
Implement custom passphrase elongation via something like recursive encryption using consecutive 32-character sections as ciphers e.g. if the passphrase is 40 characters, then the first 32 characters make up the first cipher, and the last 8 characters are padded with zeroes to make up the second cipher

	/**
	* Right-pad a passphrase input to ensure compatibility with the encryption cipher.
	*/
	const resizePassphrase = (passphrase: string): string => passphrase.padEnd(32, '0')

Show passphrase length advice or allow longer passphrase