We need to include the checksum to work around a GnuPG bug where data fails to
be decoded if the base64 ends with no padding chars (=) (see https://dev.gnupg.org/T7071).
Pure v6 artifacts are unaffected and won't include the checksum, as mandated by
the spec.
Breaking change:
`openpgp.armor` takes an additional `emitChecksum` argument (defaults to
false).
NB: some types of data must not include the checksum, but compliance is left as
responsibility of the caller: this function does not carry out any checks.
Refer to the crypto-refresh RFC for more details.
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Co-authored-by: Daniel Huigens <d.huigens@protonmail.com>
Unclear motivation for adding the original config option; if an expiration is there, it should
be honoured.
Breaking change:
the option used to default to `false`, and ignore revocation expirations. We now honour
those expirations, namely match the behaviour resulting from setting the option to `true`.
This is a breaking change, as NIST curves identifiers and values in
`enums.curves` have been renamed:
- the identifiers `enums.curve.p256`, `.p384`, `.p521` are now marked as
`@deprecated`
- the new identifiers are, respectively: `enums.curve.nistP256`, `.nistP384`,
`.nistP521`.
- the corresponding values have been changed from `'p256'`,`'p384'`,`'p521'` to
`'nistP256'`, `'nistP384'`, `'nistP521'`.
Affected high-level API functions:
- in `generateKey`, the `options.curve` argument will expect the updated string
values
- `Key.getAlgorithmInfo()` will return the updated `curve` values
Breaking change: the `config.deflateLevel` is removed as the API does not accept a deflate level
in input, and the setting is of limited importance. Plus, using compression
is discouraged on security grounds.
Breaking change: all functions taking streams as inputs will now require passing Web Streams in Node.js . If given a native `stream.Readable` input, they will throw. The browser build is unaffected by this change.
Utils to convert from and to Web Streams in Node are available from v17,
see https://nodejs.org/api/stream.html#streamreadabletowebstreamreadable-options .
Previously, we automatically converted between Node native streams and custom, Web-like Readable streams.
This led to occasional issues.
This is to signal support to senders who wish to use these algos.
Note that SHA256 remains as first default preference, followed by SHA512,
as in the context of OpenPGP signatures they provide
better performance/security ratio than their SHA3 counterparts.
Key flags are needed to restrict key usage to specific purposes:
https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-openpgp-crypto-refresh-10.html#section-5.2.3.29 .
Some older keys (e.g. from OpenPGP.js v1) do not declare any key flags.
In previous OpenPGP.js versions, we've allowed such keys to be used for any operation for which they were compatible.
This behaviour has now changed, and these keys are not allowed to be used for any operation.
The setting `config.allowMissingKeyFlags` has been added to selectively revert to the past behaviour.
This special cipher value can be relevant for unencrypted private keys:
https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-openpgp-crypto-refresh-10.html#section-12.2.1 .
However, it is no longer used internally, and on the contrary it could cause
confusion on SKESK decryption, where "random" cipher algos are returned in case
of wrong password.
This change also fixes a flaky test on password-based decryption, caused by the
PKESK v6 changes which add support for `null` cipher algos. The code did not
distinguish between a `null` and a `0` (plaintext) algo identifier, and would
break when the latter was returned on SKESK decryption.
The crypto refresh says that we MUST NOT reject messages where the
CRC24 checksum is incorrect. So, we remove the check for it.
Also, remove the checksumRequired config.
In terms of API, this feature is backwards compatible, no breaking changes.
However, since a Wasm module is loaded for the Argon2 computation, browser apps
might need to make changes to their CSP policy in order to use the feature.
Newly introduced config fields:
- `config.s2kType` (defaulting to `enums.s2k.iterated`): s2k to use on
password-based encryption as well as private key encryption;
- `config.s2kArgon2Params` (defaulting to "uniformly safe settings" from Argon
RFC): parameters to use on encryption when `config.s2kType` is set to
`enums.s2k.argon2`;
Set to replace `enums.curve.ed25519` (resp. `.curve25519`), which can still be used everywhere,
but it will be dropped in v6.
Deprecation notices have been added to ease transition.
Set to replace `enums.publicKey.eddsa`, which can still be used everywhere,
but it will be dropped in v6.
Deprecation notices have been added to ease transition.
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.
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.
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.
The updated stream types improve type inference and checks, in particular when
using ReadableStreams.
Also:
- add `EncryptSessionKeyOptions` to make it easier to declare wrapper functions
of `encryptSessionKey`;
- tighter output type inference in `Message.getText()` and `.getLiteralData()`.
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`
Breaking changes:
- throw error on key generation if the requested public key algorithm is
included in `config.rejectPublicKeyAlgorithms`;
- add `config.rejectCurves` to blacklist a set of ECC curves, to prevent keys
using those curves from being generated, or being used to
encrypt/decrypt/sign/verify messages.
By default, `config.rejectCurves` includes the brainpool curves
(`brainpoolP256r1`, `brainpoolP384r1`, `brainpoolP512r1`) and the Bitcoin curve
(`secp256k1`). This is because it's unclear whether these curves will be
standardised[1], and we prefer to blacklist them already, rather than introduce
a breaking change after release.
[1] https://gitlab.com/openpgp-wg/rfc4880bis/-/merge_requests/47#note_634199141
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`.
The `format` option in `openpgp.generateKey, reformatKey, revokeKey, encrypt,
sign, encryptSessionKey` now expects the value `'armored'` instead of `'armor'`
to output armored data. The other format options (i.e. `'binary'` and
`'object'`) remain unchanged.
Breaking changes:
- a new `format` option has been added to `openpgp.encrypt`, `sign` and
`encryptSessionKey` to select the format of the output message. `format`
replaces the existing `armor` option, and accepts three values:
* if `format: 'armor'` (default), an armored signed/encrypted message is
returned (same as `armor: true`).
* if `format: 'binary'`, a binary signed/encrypted message is returned (same
as `armor: false`).
* if `format: 'object'`, a Message or Signature object is returned (this was
not supported before).
This change is to uniform the output format selection across all top-level
functions (following up to #1345).
- All top-level functions now throw if unrecognised options are passed, to make
library users aware that those options are not being applied.
This change is to make the code more consistent between the streaming and
non-streaming cases.
The validity of a signature (or the corresponding verification error) can be
determined through the existing `verified` property.
API changes:
- `Key.isPublic()` has been removed, since it was redundant and it would
introduce TypeScript issues. Call `!Key.isPrivate()` instead.
TypeScript changes:
- the `openpgp.readKey(s)` functions are now declared as returning a `Key`
instead of a `PublicKey`. This is just a readability improvement to make it
clearer that the result could also be a `PrivateKey`.
- All `Key` methods that return a key object now have the narrowest possible
return type.
- The `Key.isPrivate()` method can now be used for type inference, allowing the
compiler to distinguish between `PrivateKey` and `PublicKey`.
Calling `key.isPrivate()` is the recommended way of distinguishing between a
`PrivateKey` and `PublicKey` at runtime, over using `key instanceof ...`, since
the latter depends on the specifics of the `Key` class hierarchy.
