Error: error:02000079:rsa routines::oaep decoding error

[metapodcod]

Everything was fine until yesterday, even though I changed nothing, I am facing such an error.

{
    "success": false,
    "rawError": "Error: Error during decryption (probably incorrect key). Original error: Error: error:02000079:rsa routines::oaep decoding error"
}

[VincentTam]

I encountered the same issue during migration from Heroku to Render. Despite my past investigation into Staticman's encryption mechanism, my guess is as good as yours. As RSA would soon be obsolete, I don't want to spend time on this stuff.

The RSA is used for secret fields in

• reCAPTCHA
• authenticated comments.

The former alone without Akismet can't stop unwanted comments. The later isn't practically used, so few developers work on that. Imagine a non developer having to login GitHub before being able to leave a comment. That's fine for a tech blog, but for a blog on the Arts 🤔 that might scare readers away.

It's said that Akismet effectively stops undesirable messages, and it's free (as in "free beer"), so I simply removed the reCAPTCHA part.