8245686: Ed25519 and Ed448 present in handshake messages

Anthony Scarpino anthony.scarpino at oracle.com
Wed Jun 10 04:09:25 UTC 2020


Thanks for catching that.

Tony

On 6/9/20 5:23 PM, Bradford Wetmore wrote:
> 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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