From 9a2297573273ff91f85bcfc49ca3194dec2bf29e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Maidul Islam <maidul98@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2023 17:29:35 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] When comments are empty, return empty byte

---
 cli/packages/crypto/crypto.go | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/cli/packages/crypto/crypto.go b/cli/packages/crypto/crypto.go
index f9589347a9..2f507ed4c8 100644
--- a/cli/packages/crypto/crypto.go
+++ b/cli/packages/crypto/crypto.go
@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@ import (
 
 // will decrypt cipher text to plain text using iv and tag
 func DecryptSymmetric(key []byte, cipherText []byte, tag []byte, iv []byte) ([]byte, error) {
+	// Case: empty string
+	if len(cipherText) == 0 && len(tag) == 0 && len(iv) == 0 {
+		return []byte{}, nil
+	}
+
 	block, err := aes.NewCipher(key)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err