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Add cert key type checking to chooseClientAlias - #2417
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@nmburgan I'm wondering if there is a way to test this ? |
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@davecramer We've tested with our particular setup with Bouncy Castle and it works for our use case. Not sure if there would be other libraries passing in Did you mean unit tests? Could possibly throw something in LazyKeyManagerTest and PKCS12KeyTest. It didn't look like that was currently exercising chooseClientAlias but I didn't dig into it too much. Let me know if you have any suggestions. I'd be happy to do whatever makes sense! |
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Yes, I meant unit tests. Ideally we'd like features tested so that in the future some change doesn't break them |
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Sure, I can add those! |
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Tests added |
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This may actually not work correctly against non-RSA key types. I'm not sure if Edit: I think it does, actually, but this still probably isn't the most robust way. Not sure what else we can do since the function takes in strings rather than more detailed key type information. |
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Changed to use |
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Yeah, I think based on https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/11/docs/specs/security/standard-names.html#keyfactory-algorithms we're okay. |
Previously, these functions ignored the keyType (or 'strings') argument to the chooseClientAlias function. Some libraries (e.g. Bouncy Castle) expect that when chooseClientAlias is called and key types are passed in, that it will return null if the cert doesn't use one of the given key types. For example, if ['EC'] was passed in for keyType and the cert contained an RSA key, since this would return 'user' rather than null in that case, it would cause Bouncy Castle to assume using an ECDSA signing algorithm was okay, and cause problems during the Certificate Verify part of the handshake. This modifies these functions to only return 'user' if keyType is passed in and the cert contains a key of that type. If keyType is empty or null, it will ignore this and continue to check only the issuer.
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Any idea when the next release might go out? We're mulling whether we want to fork the repo to incorporate the fix in the near-term, or just wait for the next release. |
I'm working on. that now. I'd like to get a release out this week. |
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Previously, these functions ignored the keyType (or 'strings') argument to the chooseClientAlias function. Some libraries (e.g. Bouncy Castle) expect that when chooseClientAlias is called and key types are passed in, that it will return null if the cert doesn't use one of the given key types. For example, if ['EC'] was passed in for keyType and the cert contained an RSA key, since this would return 'user' rather than null in that case, it would cause Bouncy Castle to assume using an ECDSA signing algorithm was okay, and cause problems during the Certificate Verify part of the handshake.
This modifies these functions to only return 'user' if keyType is passed in and the cert contains a key of that type. If keyType is empty or null, it will ignore this and continue to check only the issuer.
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Does this break existing behaviour? If so please explain.
If keyType is being passed in, it will now return null if the cert does not contain that keyType. Previously, this argument was being ignored.
Have you added an explanation of what your changes do and why you'd like us to include them?
Have you written new tests for your core changes, as applicable?
Have you successfully run tests with your changes locally?