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beautifulentropy · 2026-10-29T16:47:43Z

proof: Use id-alg-mtcProof, 1.3.6.1.5.5.7.6.67, which draft 07 allocated, in place of the experimental 1.3.6.1.4.1.44363.47.0.
subtree: Accept empty subtrees, [x, x), per section 4.1 (introduced in draft 06). ConsistencyProof returns an empty proof for them. The appendix C.1 digests move to their new values, the C.2.1 validity cases are added, and mirror.SignSubtreeRequest uses subtree.Valid.
trees: Rename cosigned.Message to cosigned.Subtree and proof.SubtreeSignature to proof.Cosignature, matching the renamed CosignedSubtree and Cosignature structures, and timestamped_signature to TimestampedSignature in comments.
core: Cap the serial index at trees.MaxSize-1, since a log holds at most 2^48-1 entries per section 5.2.
linter: Build the test issuer with id-rdna-trustAnchorID and a RELATIVE-OID value, removing the last use of the experimental attribute.
cosignature: Build checkpoint and subtree messages with separate helpers, so a checkpoint message always starts at zero and a subtree message never carries a timestamp, as section 5.3.1 requires. Addresses mtpublisher: Store the mirror's checkpoint line and subtree signatures #9097 (comment).
trees: Reject non-canonical base64 in the mirror-info ticket and signature line decoders, as tlog-mirror v0.1.0 and signed-note v1.1.0 require.
trees: Validate checkpoint origins and cosigner names against tlog-cosignature v1.1.0's cosigner name construction. Checkpoints whose origin contains a space or a plus sign are now rejected.

Part of #9082

beautifulentropy · 2026-10-29T17:52:06Z

Apologies for the force-push. I missed some bullets on one of the Claude reviews. I reviewed the findings and pushed up the necessary changes, and updated the PR description.

beautifulentropy · 2026-10-29T20:40:08Z

+// construction in https://c2sp.org/tlog-cosignature#cosigners, which log
+// origins also follow: a non-empty UTF-8 string of at most 255 bytes with no
+// Unicode spaces, plus signs, or control characters below U+0020.
+func CheckName(name string) error {


I kind of went back and forth on the correct home for this and couldn't make a decision if y'all have better ideas feel free to chime in.

IMO somewhere in the cosignature package, e.g. cosignature.ValidCosignerName (a mouthful I know). My rationale for there, even though this is shared by log origins, is that a log origin is also a cosigner. Also it's fine here. 🤷🏻

The requirements for this are defined by the C2SP tlog-cosignature doc, therefore the enforcement of it belongs in the cosignature package, IMO.

(In general, I think it would be nice for future maintenance purposes if we had a very clean mapping of source packages to C2SP documents -- one that implements signed-note, one that implements tlog-cosignature, one that implements tlog-checkpoint, etc.)

aarongable

core: Cap the serial index at trees.MaxSize-1, since a log holds at most 2^48-1 entries per section 5.2.

It took me like four reads to understand this correctly. It seems like it is saying "cap the serial index to 2^48-1", because both mathematical statements have a -1 in them. What it's actually saying is that trees.MaxSize is 2^48-1, and our max index needs to be one less than that (i.e. 2^48-2) because entries are zero-indexed.

I suggest rephrasing as:

core: Cap the serial index at trees.MaxSize-1, rather than recomputing the max serial index directly and getting an off-by-one error

aarongable · 2026-10-30T22:53:58Z

+	caID, err := reloid.FromString("44947.4.2.1")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	idRDNATrustAnchorID := asn1.ObjectIdentifier{1, 3, 6, 1, 5, 5, 7, 25, 3}


completely optional hyper-nit: idRDNATrustAnchorID is used before caID is, so create it first as well

Suggested change

caID, err := reloid.FromString("44947.4.2.1")

if err != nil {

t.Fatal(err)

}

idRDNATrustAnchorID := asn1.ObjectIdentifier{1, 3, 6, 1, 5, 5, 7, 25, 3}

idRDNATrustAnchorID := asn1.ObjectIdentifier{1, 3, 6, 1, 5, 5, 7, 25, 3}

caID, err := reloid.FromString("44947.4.2.1")

if err != nil {

t.Fatal(err)

}

aarongable · 2026-10-30T22:59:03Z

+// construction in https://c2sp.org/tlog-cosignature#cosigners, which log
+// origins also follow: a non-empty UTF-8 string of at most 255 bytes with no
+// Unicode spaces, plus signs, or control characters below U+0020.
+func CheckName(name string) error {


The requirements for this are defined by the C2SP tlog-cosignature doc, therefore the enforcement of it belongs in the cosignature package, IMO.

(In general, I think it would be nice for future maintenance purposes if we had a very clean mapping of source packages to C2SP documents -- one that implements signed-note, one that implements tlog-cosignature, one that implements tlog-checkpoint, etc.)

aarongable · 2026-10-30T23:02:40Z

 // TestCosignSubtree checks that a subtree starting at 0 is signed as a
-// checkpoint of its size is, and that a later subtree verifies over its own
-// message.
+// checkpoint of its size is, that a later subtree verifies over its own


I think the first part of this comment is no longer true -- a subtree starting at zero is not signed the same way as a checkpoint of the same size, because the checkpoint includes a timestamp.

aarongable · 2026-10-30T23:03:16Z


-// marshalCheckpointMessage serializes the cosigned.Message for a checkpoint
+// marshalCheckpointMessage serializes the cosigned.Subtree for a checkpoint
 // cosignature, with start 0 and end the tree size as the MTC draft section


"and end the tree size" both reads poorly and doesn't seem relevant here, given that the input to this function is end, not treeSize.

aarongable · 2026-10-30T23:24:06Z

+// It errors if cosigner_name or log_origin are not valid names. It does not validate semantic constraints,
+// like [start, end) being a valid subtree.


FWIW I think it would just be a single call to subtree.Valid to do this now.

aarongable · 2026-10-30T23:25:04Z

One message->subtree renaming you didn't do is the name of this file. Unsure whether that rename is worth it or not.

aarongable · 2026-10-30T23:28:17Z

 	// above x, an exclusive ceiling. BIT_CEIL(x) is inclusive, the smallest
 	// power of two at least x, so we apply it to end-start-1.
-	bitCeil := uint64(1) << bits.Len64(uint64(end-start-1)) //nolint:gosec // G115: the start >= end check above leaves end-start positive, so end-start-1 is non-negative.
+	bitCeil := uint64(1) << bits.Len64(uint64(end-start-1)) //nolint:gosec // G115: the start == end return above leaves end-start positive, so end-start-1 is non-negative.


Suggested change

bitCeil := uint64(1) << bits.Len64(uint64(end-start-1)) //nolint:gosec // G115: the start == end return above leaves end-start positive, so end-start-1 is non-negative.

bitCeil := uint64(1) << bits.Len64(uint64(end-start-1)) //nolint:gosec // G115: the checks above mean that end-start is positive, so end-start-1 is non-negative.

aarongable · 2026-10-31T00:00:51Z

+	const alphabet = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/"
+	nonCanonical := bytes.Clone(line)
+	last := bytes.IndexByte(nonCanonical, '=') - 1
+	nonCanonical[last] = alphabet[strings.IndexByte(alphabet, nonCanonical[last])+1]


A few comments here:

It took me a while to figure out exactly what's going on here; there should be a comment explaining it (like there is for the similar code down on line 607).

If line is a length that doesn't require padding characters, this will fail: last will be set to -2, and indexing nonCanonical[-2] will panic.

If line ends with .../=, then this will fail: alphabet[36] will panic.

Comments 2 and 3 also apply down on line 607.

Given that rejecting non-canonical encodings is happens very early in VerifySubtreeSignatureLine, I think it would be much cleaner to just hard-code a base64 string literal that has one or more padding bits set to 1. Something like TWF= (from the wikipedia examples) should work.

beautifulentropy added 2 commits October 29, 2026 12:40

proof: Use the id-alg-mtcProof OID assigned in draft 07

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subtree: Allow empty subtrees

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beautifulentropy requested a review from a team as a code owner October 29, 2026 16:47

beautifulentropy requested a review from jsha October 29, 2026 16:47

beautifulentropy changed the title ~~mtc: Align the implementation with draft-ietf-plants-merkle-tree-certs-07~~ Align our MTC implementation with draft-ietf-plants-merkle-tree-certs-07 Oct 29, 2026

beautifulentropy added 6 commits October 29, 2026 13:21

trees: Rename cosigned and proof types to the draft 07 names

ac4888a

core: Cap MTC serial indexes at 2^48-2

f559ae8

linter: Use the draft 07 trust anchor ID attribute in the test issuer

1c3df3f

cosignature: Carry a timestamp only on checkpoint messages

49ddd55

trees: Reject non-canonical base64 in mirror and cosignature decoders

8d776b9

trees: Validate origins and cosigner names per tlog-cosignature

7c3fc46

beautifulentropy force-pushed the mtc-draft07-alignment branch from b040461 to 7c3fc46 Compare October 29, 2026 17:50

beautifulentropy changed the title ~~Align our MTC implementation with draft-ietf-plants-merkle-tree-certs-07~~ Align our MTC implementation with draft-07 Oct 29, 2026

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Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into mtc-draft07-alignment

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		// It errors if cosigner_name or log_origin are not valid names. It does not validate semantic constraints,
		// like [start, end) being a valid subtree.

	bitCeil := uint64(1) << bits.Len64(uint64(end-start-1)) //nolint:gosec // G115: the start == end return above leaves end-start positive, so end-start-1 is non-negative.
	bitCeil := uint64(1) << bits.Len64(uint64(end-start-1)) //nolint:gosec // G115: the checks above mean that end-start is positive, so end-start-1 is non-negative.

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