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author | Richard van der Hoff <richard@matrix.org> | 2016-09-01 13:35:23 +0100 |
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committer | Richard van der Hoff <richard@matrix.org> | 2016-09-01 13:35:23 +0100 |
commit | 0c462cff112589fc52d13da6c919f881cb6d3f8c (patch) | |
tree | 9c71802ce0d583856b7cd47bfcf20cdfa05354ba /src/account.cpp | |
parent | f03febb772c47855ab748ed6dee2f29db9f9c5ba (diff) |
Fix Ed25519 keypair generation
Ed25519 private keys, it turns out, have 64 bytes, not 32.
We were previously generating only 32 bytes (which is all that is required to
generate the public key), and then using the public key as the upper 32 bytes
when generating the per-message session key. This meant that everything
appeared to work, but the security of the private key was severely compromised.
By way of fixes:
* Use the correct algorithm for generating the Ed25519 private key, and store
all 512 bits of it.
* Update the account pickle format and refuse to load the old format (since we
should consider it compromised).
* Bump the library version, and add a function to retrieve the library
version, so that applications can verify that they are linked against a
fixed version of the library.
* Remove the curve25519_{sign, verify} functions which were unused and of
dubious quality.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/account.cpp')
-rw-r--r-- | src/account.cpp | 16 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/src/account.cpp b/src/account.cpp index c8e6e40..ec763f8 100644 --- a/src/account.cpp +++ b/src/account.cpp @@ -326,7 +326,9 @@ static std::uint8_t const * unpickle( } // namespace olm namespace { -static const std::uint32_t ACCOUNT_PICKLE_VERSION = 1; +// pickle version 1 used only 32 bytes for the ed25519 private key. +// Any keys thus used should be considered compromised. +static const std::uint32_t ACCOUNT_PICKLE_VERSION = 2; } @@ -360,9 +362,15 @@ std::uint8_t const * olm::unpickle( ) { uint32_t pickle_version; pos = olm::unpickle(pos, end, pickle_version); - if (pickle_version != ACCOUNT_PICKLE_VERSION) { - value.last_error = OlmErrorCode::OLM_UNKNOWN_PICKLE_VERSION; - return end; + switch (pickle_version) { + case ACCOUNT_PICKLE_VERSION: + break; + case 1: + value.last_error = OlmErrorCode::OLM_BAD_LEGACY_ACCOUNT_PICKLE; + return end; + default: + value.last_error = OlmErrorCode::OLM_UNKNOWN_PICKLE_VERSION; + return end; } pos = olm::unpickle(pos, end, value.identity_keys); pos = olm::unpickle(pos, end, value.one_time_keys); |