Such keys are still capable of encryption and signature verification.
This change is relevant for forward compatibility of v4 keys encrypted using e.g. argon2.
This config option allows parsing additional packet types when parsing
a packet list or armored object, in contexts where they are normally
not expected to appear, by passing a list of packet classes
(e.g. `additionalAllowedPackets: [PublicKeyPacket]`).
Assign most signature subpacket types a criticality based on whether
failing to interpret their meaning would negatively impact security.
For Notation Data subpackets, let the user indicate their criticality
using the `signatureNotations[*].critical` property.
The changes do not affect the public API:
`RandomBuffer` was used internally for secure randomness generation before
`crypto.getRandomValues` was made available to WebWorkers, requiring
generating randomness in the main thread.
As a result of the change, the internal `getRandomBytes()` and some functions
that use it are no longer async.
Move the Issuer, Issuer Fingerprint, and Embedded Signature subpackets
to the hashed subpackets for new signatures. While we allow these to be
unhashed, it's safer to hash them, and this simplifies the code as well.
When re-serializing a signature packet, don't add Issuer, Issuer
Fingerprint, and Embedded Signature subpackets to the unhashed
subpackets if they weren't already there.
Also, store all unhashed subpackets in `signature.unhashedSubpackets`,
not just the "disallowed" ones.
The relevant packets will be considered unsupported instead of malformed.
Hence, parsing them will succeed by default (based on
`config.ignoreUnsupportedPackets`).
When parsing errors are being ignored, packets that fail to parse are now
included in the resulting packet list as `UnparseablePacket`s . This way, when
parsing keys that contain unparsable (sub)key, we avoid associating the
following non-key packets to the wrong key entity.
On serialization, `UnparseablePacket`s are also included by writing their raw
packet body as it was read.
Breaking change: `openpgp.encryptKey` now throws if an empty string is given as
passphrase. The operation used to succeed, but the resulting key was left in an
inconsistent state, and e.g. serialization would not be possible.
Non-breaking changes:
- `options.passphrase` in `generateKey` and `reformatKey` now defaults to
`undefined` instead of empty string. Passing an empty string does not throw for
now, but this might change in the future to align with `encryptKey`'s
behaviour.
- In TS, add `GenerateKeyOptions` as alias of `KeyOptions`, to clarify its
scope.
Implement optional constant-time decryption flow to hinder Bleichenbacher-like
attacks against RSA- and ElGamal public-key encrypted session keys.
Changes:
- Add `config.constantTimePKCS1Decryption` to enable the constant-time
processing (defaults to `false`). The constant-time option is off by default
since it has measurable performance impact on message decryption, and it is
only helpful in specific application scenarios (more info below).
- Add `config.constantTimePKCS1DecryptionSupportedSymmetricAlgorithms`
(defaults to the AES algorithms). The set of supported ciphers is restricted by
default since the number of algorithms negatively affects performance.
Bleichenbacher-like attacks are of concern for applications where both of the
following conditions are met:
1. new/incoming messages are automatically decrypted (without user
interaction);
2. an attacker can determine how long it takes to decrypt each message (e.g.
due to decryption errors being logged remotely).
In several packet classes, we used to store string identifiers for public-key,
aead, cipher or hash algorithms. To make the code consistent and to avoid
having to convert to/from string values, we now always store integer values
instead, e.g. `enums.symmetric.aes128` is used instead of `'aes128'`.
This is not expected to be a breaking change for most library users. Note that
the type of `Key.getAlgorithmInfo()` and of the session key objects returned
and accepted by top-level functions remain unchanged.
Affected classes (type changes for some properties and method's arguments):
- `PublicKeyPacket`, `PublicSubkeyPacket`, `SecretKeyPacket`,
`SecretSubkeyPacket`
- `SymEncryptedIntegrityProtectedDataPacket`, `AEADEncryptedDataPacket`,
`SymmetricallyEncryptedDataPacket`
- `LiteralDataPacket`, `CompressedDataPacket`
- `PublicKeyEncryptedSessionKey`, `SymEncryptedSessionKeyPacket`
- `SignaturePacket`
Other potentially breaking changes:
- Removed property `AEADEncryptedDataPacket.aeadAlgo`, since it was redudant
given `.aeadAlgorithm`.
- Renamed `AEADEncryptedDataPacket.cipherAlgo` -> `.cipherAlgorithm`
Configuration options related to parsing have been changed to make it possible
to try to read messages containing malformed packets. Changes:
- rename `config.tolerant` to `config.ignoreUnsupportedPackets`. This still
defaults to `true`.
- Add `config.ignoreMalformedPackets` to ignore packets that fail to parse
(when possible). This option was not available before and it defaults to `false`.
- When parsing, throw on unexpected packets even if `config.tolerant = true`
(e.g. if a Public Key packet is found when reading a signature).
- Always ignore Trust and Marker packets on parsing.
- Fix#1145: correctly verify signatures that include Marker packets when
`config.tolerant = false`.
- Fix#1159: `Key.verifyPrimaryKey` considers expiration time subpackets in
direct-key signatures to determine whether the key is expired.
- `Key.getExpirationTime()` does not take the `capabilities` and `keyID` arguments
anymore, and simply returns the expiration date of the primary key. Also, like
for `verifyPrimaryKey`, direct-key signatures are now taken into account.
- Keys and signatures are considered expired at the time of expiry, instead of
one second later.
Breaking change:
`Key.getExpirationTime(capabilities, keyID, userID, config)` ->
`.getExpirationTime(userID, config)`
- Throw on signature parsing (e.g. in `openpgp.readSignature`) if the
creation time subpacket is missing
- `SignaturePacket.verify` now directly checks for signature creation
and expiration times. This makes it easier to thoroughly check the
validity of signatures. Also:
- `openpgp.revokeKey` now takes a `date` to check the provided
revocation certificate
- `openpgp.decryptSessionKeys` now takes a `date` to check the
validity of the provided private keys
- whenever a `date` is used internally, the function accepts a
`date` param to allow passing the correct date
- Add tests for all of the above
- Like `openpgp.generateKey`, `openpgp.reformatKey` now also requires
`options.userIDs`
- Simplify calling `SubKey.isRevoked/update/getExpirationTime` by
adding the `SubKey.mainKey` field to hold the reference of the
corresponding `Key`
Breaking changes in low-level functions:
- Added/removed `date` params:
- `Key.update(key, config)` -> `update(key, date, config)`
- `Key.applyRevocationCertificate(revocationCertificate, config)` ->
`applyRevocationCertificate(revocationCertificate, date, config)`
- `Key.signAllUsers(privateKeys, config)` ->
`signAllUsers(privateKeys, date, config)`
- `Key.verifyAllUsers(keys, config)` ->
`verifyAllUsers(keys, date, config)`
- `new SignaturePacket(date)` -> `new SignaturePacket()`
- `SignaturePacket.sign(key, data, detached)` ->
`sign(key, data, date, detached)`
- `Message.sign(primaryKey, privateKeys, config)` ->
`sign(primaryKey, privateKeys, date, config)`
- `Message.decrypt(privateKeys, passwords, sessionKeys, config)` ->
`decrypt(privateKeys, passwords, sessionKeys, date, config)`
- `Message.decryptSessionKeys(privateKeys, passwords, config)` ->
`decryptSessionKeys(privateKeys, passwords, date, config)`
- Removed `primaryKey` params:
- `SubKey.isRevoked(primaryKey, signature, key, date, config)` ->
`isRevoked(signature, key, date, config)`
- `SubKey.update(subKey, primaryKey, date, config)` ->
`update(subKey, date, config)`
- `SubKey.getExpirationTime(primaryKey, date, config)` ->
`getExpirationTime(date, config)`
- Add `PrivateKey` and `PublicKey` classes. A `PrivateKey` can always
be passed where a `PublicKey` key is expected, but not vice versa.
- Unexport `Key`, and export `PrivateKey` and `PublicKey`.
- Rename `Key.packetlist2structure` to `Key.packetListToStructure`.
- Change `Key.update` to return a new updated key, rather than
modifying the destination one in place.
- Add `openpgp.readPrivateKey` and `openpgp.readPrivateKeys` to avoid
having to downcast the result of `readKey(s)` in TypeScript.
Don't ignore parse errors if `config.tolerant` is enabled. This leads to
more useful error messages in most cases, as ignoring these errors will
most likely still lead to an error down the line (e.g. if a key binding
signature is missing). Unsupported and unknown packets and packets with
an unsupported or unknown version are still ignored, for forward
compatibility.
Also, make `PKESK.encrypt`/`decrypt` void.
- Make fingerprint and key ID computation async, and rely on Web Crypto
for hashing if available
- Always set fingerprint and keyID on key parsing / generation
- Introduce `*KeyPacket.computeFingerprint()` and
`*KeyPacket.computeFingerprintAndKeyID()`
- Change `getKeyID` and `getFingerprint*` functions to return the
pre-computed key ID and fingerprint, respectively
- Make `PublicKeyPacket.read` async
- Add `PacketList.fromBinary` which parses binary data and returns a
`PacketList`. Using it instead of `PacketList.read` avoids being left
with partially read data in case of errors.
- Rename `toPacketlist` to `toPacketList` in `Key`, `Subkey` and `User`
classes
- In `readMessage`, pass down `config` to `PacketList.read`
- Add `config` param to `CompressedDataPacket.decompress`,
`AEADEncryptedDataPacket.decrypt` and `Message.appendSignature`
Changes:
- Implementation:
- Remove `PacketList.prototype.concat` and `push`
(we solely rely on `Array.push` instead)
- Fix https://github.com/openpgpjs/openpgpjs/issues/907 by
correctly handling result of `filterByTag`
- Implement `write()` method for `Trust` and `Marker` packets,
to make them compatible with the `BasePacket` interface
- Types:
- Simplify and updated `PacketList` type definitions
- Fix types for `Packet.tag`, which is `static` since
https://github.com/openpgpjs/openpgpjs/pull/1268
- Prevent passing SubkeyPackets where KeyPackets are expected,
and vice versa
To encrypt/decrypt a key, the top-level functions `openpgp.encryptKey` and
`openpgp.decryptKey` should be used instead: these don't mutate the key;
instead, they either return a new encrypted/decrypted key object or throw an
error.
With `Key.prototype.encrypt` and `decrypt`, which mutated the key, it was
possible to end up in an inconsistent state if some (sub)keys could be
decrypted but others couldn't, they would both mutate the key and throw an
error, which is unexpected.
Note that the `keyID` parameter is not supported by `encryptKey`/`decryptKey`,
since partial key decryption is not recommended. If you still need to decrypt
a single subkey or primary key `k`, you can call `k.keyPacket.decrypt(...)`,
followed by `k.keyPacket.validate(...)`. Similarly, for encryption, call
`k.keyPacket.encrypt(...)`.
Additionally, `openpgp.generateKey` now requires `options.userIDs` again,
since otherwise the key is basically unusable. This was a regression from v4,
since we now allow parsing keys without user IDs (but still not using them).
When unencrypted secret key packets are serialized, a 2-byte checksum is
appended after the key material. According to rfc4880bis, these 2 bytes are
not included in the length of the key material (this encoded length is a new
addition of rfc4880bis, specific to v5 keys). We erroneously included them,
causing other implementations to fail to parse unencrypted v5 private keys
generated by OpenPGP.js.
- Use PascalCase for classes, with uppercase acronyms.
- Use camelCase for function and variables. First word/acronym is always
lowercase, otherwise acronyms are uppercase.
Also, make the packet classes' `tag` properties `static`.
- Add `config.rejectPublicKeyAlgorithms` to disallow using the given algorithms
to verify, sign or encrypt new messages or third-party certifications.
- Consider `config.minRsaBits` when signing, verifying and encrypting messages
and third-party certifications, not just on key generation.
- When verifying a message, if the verification key is not found (i.e. not
provided or too weak), the corresponding `signature` will have
`signature.valid=false` (used to be `signature.valid=null`).
`signature.error` will detail whether the key is missing/too weak/etc.
Generating and verifying key certification signatures is still permitted in all cases.
- Rename `config.compression` to `config.preferredCompressionAlgorithm`
- Rename `config.encryptionCipher` to `config.preferredSymmetricAlgorithm`
- Rename `config.preferHashAlgorithm` to `config.preferredHashAlgorithm`
- Rename `config.aeadMode` to `config.preferredAeadAlgorithm`
- When encrypting to public keys, the compression/aead/symmetric algorithm is selected by:
- taking the preferred algorithm specified in config, if it is supported by all recipients
- otherwise, taking the "MUST implement" algorithm specified by rfc4880bis
- When encrypting to passphrases only (no public keys), the preferred algorithms from `config` are always used
- EdDSA signing with a hash algorithm weaker than sha256 is explicitly disallowed (https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-openpgp-rfc4880bis-10.html#section-15-7.2)
* Rename `config.ignoreMdcError` to `config.allowUnauthenticatedMessages`
* Do not support creating sym. enc. messages without integrity protection
* Use `config.aeadProtect` to determine SKESK encryption mode
Refactor functions to take the configuration as a parameter.
This allows setting a config option for a single function call, whereas
setting `openpgp.config` could lead to concurrency-related issues when
multiple async function calls are made at the same time.
`openpgp.config` is used as default for unset config values in top-level
functions.
`openpgp.config` is used as default config object in low-level functions
(i.e., when calling a low-level function, it may be required to pass
`{ ...openpgp.config, modifiedConfig: modifiedValue }`).
Also,
- remove `config.rsaBlinding`: blinding is now always applied to RSA decryption
- remove `config.debug`: debugging mode can be enabled by setting
`process.env.NODE_ENV = 'development'`
- remove `config.useNative`: native crypto is always used when available
