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author | Hans Jerry Illikainen <hji@dyntopia.com> | 2019-11-22 20:23:12 +0000 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2019-11-23 09:18:40 +0900 |
commit | 67a6ea63008bcee32a239934ad29eb5c5a554509 (patch) | |
tree | ced58695d6c423f4ae0db505d095dbd3463fe592 /Documentation/technical | |
parent | gpg-interface: refactor the free-and-xmemdupz pattern (diff) | |
download | tgif-67a6ea63008bcee32a239934ad29eb5c5a554509.tar.xz |
gpg-interface: limit search for primary key fingerprint
The VALIDSIG status line from GnuPG with --status-fd is documented to
have 9 required and 1 optional fields [1]. The final, and optional,
field is used to specify the fingerprint of the primary key that made
the signature in case it was made by a subkey. However, this field is
only available for OpenPGP signatures; not for CMS/X.509.
If the VALIDSIG status line does not have the optional 10th field, the
current code will continue reading onto the next status line. And this
is the case for non-OpenPGP signatures [1].
The consequence is that a subsequent status line may be considered as
the "primary key" for signatures that does not have an actual primary
key.
Limit the search of these 9 or 10 fields to the single line to avoid
this problem. If the 10th field is missing, report that there is no
primary key fingerprint.
[Reference]
[1] GnuPG Details, General status codes
https://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=gnupg.git;a=blob;f=doc/DETAILS;h=6ce340e8c04794add995e84308bb3091450bd28f;hb=HEAD#l483
The documentation says:
VALIDSIG <args>
The args are:
- <fingerprint_in_hex>
- <sig_creation_date>
- <sig-timestamp>
- <expire-timestamp>
- <sig-version>
- <reserved>
- <pubkey-algo>
- <hash-algo>
- <sig-class>
- [ <primary-key-fpr> ]
This status indicates that the signature is cryptographically
valid. [...] PRIMARY-KEY-FPR is the fingerprint of the primary key
or identical to the first argument.
The primary-key-fpr parameter is used for OpenPGP and not available
for CMS signatures. [...]
Signed-off-by: Hans Jerry Illikainen <hji@dyntopia.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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