8245686: Ed25519 and Ed448 present in handshake messages
Bradford Wetmore
bradford.wetmore at oracle.com
Wed Jun 10 00:23:19 UTC 2020
Update the year, but otherwise looks good.
Brad
On 6/9/2020 4:04 PM, Xuelei Fan wrote:
> A simple fix like this looks good to me. I may check this first, before
> the EC available and signature checking.
>
> Xuelei
>
> On 6/9/2020 3:12 PM, Anthony Scarpino wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I need a code review of this very simple change for a situation that
>> I'm not sure is a problem in the real world.
>>
>> The original TLS 1.3 putback added EdDSA to the TLS signature
>> extensions enumeration before there was an EdDSA JCE implementation or
>> JSSE support. Without an implementation, a signature checks would not
>> include EdDSA for TLS extensions, signature_algorithms and
>> signature_algorithm_cert. Now with JCE EdDSA support, the signature
>> check adds EdDSA to the extension, despite JSSE not having support yet
>> (JDK-8166596). This causes a signature scheme authentication failure,
>> and JSSE moves onto the next certificate provided.
>>
>> The only time this is a problem is if EdDSA is the only cert provided.
>> I'm not sure how realistic it is for one certificate to be provided.
>> If someone knows multiple certificates are always available, I'm happy
>> to not make this change.
>>
>> The fix is a simple check in the constructor to set the curves
>> unavailable after the signature check. This code can be deleted when
>> JDK-8166596 is fixed in jdk16. I had thought about commenting out the
>> enums, but then the logging code would not know what the id's were
>> when other clients and servers passed them to JSSE.
>>
>> https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ascarpino/8245686/webrev/
>>
>> Tony
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