Password verification failure on self-hosted Cap

[bapspatil]

Description

I've self-hosted Cap and set a password for one of my videos as test1234 (example), but when I open the video page in incognito and enter test1234 as the password, it throws a "Failed to verify password" error.

Reproduction

1. Set a password for a video.
2. Access the video in incognito.
3. Enter the password; it currently fails to be verified.

Additional Context

• Cap version: 0.82
• Operating system, version: macOS Tahoe 26.1
• Device (optional):

Cap's debug logs from the server:

2025-11-05T18:07:11.854091327Z Error verifying video password: Error: Encryption failed: Invalid encryption key format: Encryption key must be 32 bytes (64 hex characters)
2025-11-05T18:07:11.854130067Z     at f (.next/server/chunks/ssr/_c88f4be9._.js:1:1204)
2025-11-05T18:07:11.854139097Z     at async l (.next/server/chunks/ssr/[root-of-the-server]__7a711fbf._.js:2:12843)
2025-11-05T18:07:11.854146907Z     at async g (.next/server/chunks/ssr/_bf3018eb._.js:1:8414)
2025-11-05T18:07:11.854154017Z     at async o (.next/server/chunks/ssr/_bf3018eb._.js:2:1902)
2025-11-05T18:07:11.854179727Z     at async M (.next/server/chunks/ssr/_bf3018eb._.js:2:6986)

[linear]

CAP-541

[depak7]

This error occurs because the environment variable DATABASE_ENCRYPTION_KEY is missing or not a valid 32-byte (64-hex-character) value.

use this cmd to generate a valid hex in cli
openssl rand -hex 32

[bapspatil]

@depak7 That worked! I had the DATABASE_ENCRYPTION_KEY but turns out it wasn't a valid 32-byte (64-hex-character) value. Thanks!