When PuTTYgen is holding a certified key, I don't think there's any
sensible use for pasting around the full public key in authorized_keys
format, because the whole point is that what you put in
authorized_keys is 'please trust this CA' rather than the specific
key. So instead I've reused the space in the dialog box to indicate
that it's a certificate, and provide a 'more info' sub-dialog.
This gets rid of all those annoying 'win', 'ux' and 'gtk' prefixes
which made filenames annoying to type and to tab-complete. Also, as
with my other recent renaming sprees, I've taken the opportunity to
expand and clarify some of the names so that they're not such cryptic
abbreviations.
PuTTYgen and its documentation are pretty consistent about calling their
encryption key a 'passphrase', as opposed to a 'password' supplied
directly to a server; but the Argon2 parameters UI reverted to
'password hash', which seemed unecessarily confusing.
I think it's better to use the term 'passphrase' consistently in the UI.
(People who are used to Argon2 being called a 'password hash' can
probably deal.)
This required tweaking the coordinates of the Windows PuTTYgen UI.
The fingerprint type shown in the PuTTYgen main dialog can now be
selected from the Key menu. Also, I've widened the dialog box, because
SHA256 fingerprints are wider than MD5 ones.
(In a fixed-pitch font, the fingerprint itself is slightly shorter -
43 base64 characters in place of 47 characters of colon-separated hex.
But the "SHA256:" prefix lengthens it, and also, in a non-fixed-pitch
font such as the default one in Windows dialogs, the colons are very
narrow, so the MD5 fingerprint has a far smaller pixel width.)
I left this out of yesterday's collection of cmdgen CLI options and
GUI PuTTYgen dialog box, but only because I forgot about it. I don't
know off the top of my head why someone would particularly want to
configure this detail, but given that it _is_ configurable, it seems
like no extra trouble to expose it along with the rest of the
parameters, just in case.
The GUI key generator doesn't need a --reencrypt option, because you
can already just click Load and then Save without changing anything in
between. But it does need a dialog box with all the fiddly Argon2
settings in it, plus a setting to go back to PPK v2.
With this change, we stop expecting to find putty.chm alongside the
executable file. That was a security hazard comparable to DLL
hijacking, because of the risk that a malicious CHM file could be
dropped into the same directory as putty.exe (e.g. if someone ran
PuTTY from their browser's download dir)..
Instead, the standalone putty.exe (and other binaries needing help)
embed the proper CHM file within themselves, as a Windows resource,
and if called on to display the help then they write the file out to a
temporary location. This has the advantage that if you download and
run the standalone putty.exe then you actually _get_ help, which
previously didn't happen!
The versions of the binaries in the installer don't each contain a
copy of the help file; that would be extravagant. Instead, the
installer itself writes a registry entry pointing at the proper help
file, and the executables will look there.
Another effect of this commit is that I've withdrawn support for the
older .HLP format completely. It's now entirely outdated, and
supporting it through this security fix would have been a huge pain.
While I'm looking at these two dialog boxes, I notice there's another
prominent difference between PuTTY's one and these: I also never got
round to adding the button to go to PuTTY's main website. Now added.
The current About boxes are too small to fit in all the buildinfo
data, in particular the source-control commit id. Apparently I forgot
to enlarge them when I enlarged the one in PuTTY proper.
(All the same information is nonetheless *present* in the box, but
there seems to be no way to scroll a static text control, so you can
only find that out by 'Select All' and copying to the clipboard.)
Anyway. Now resized to the same dimensions as the main PuTTY About
box. (Really I should centralise more definitions into a common
resource file, but there we go.)
This shows the build platform (32- vs 64-bit in particular, and also
whether Unix GTK builds were compiled with or without the X11 pieces),
what compiler was used to build the binary, and any interesting build
options that might have been set on the make command line (especially,
but not limited to, the security-damaging ones like NO_SECURITY or
UNPROTECT). This will probably be useful all over the place, but in
particular it should allow the different Windows binaries to be told
apart!
Commits 21101c739 and 2eb952ca3 laid the groundwork for this, by
allowing the various About boxes to contain free text and also
ensuring they could be copied and pasted easily as part of a bug
report.
This makes the About and Licence boxes copy-and-pasteable, similarly
to what I've just done on Unix.
(But unlike on the Unix side, here I haven't touched the host key
prompt dialog, because that's a standard Windows MessageBox and not
easy to mess around with. Plus, in any case, you can already hit ^C to
copy the whole text out of a MessageBox. Same goes for the PGP
fingerprints dialog.)
As a side effect, several copies of the copyright notice and licence
text have moved from .rc files into C source. I've updated
CHECKLST.txt, but they won't stay there for long.
a VERSIONINFO resource. The versioning scheme is described in
windows/version.rc2.
Some .rc files are now #included in others. In order to keep MSVC
project files working, these have been renamed to .rc2; there may exist
a better solution.
(This checkin also includes the documentation tweak missing from r6367.)
Testing performed:
- MinGW (cross-compiler): works
- VC nmake: works (tested with VC6)
- VC project files: builds with VERSIONINFO resource (no VER variable though)
- Borland: an old version of this patch was tested with it and more or
less worked, except that some of the VERSIONINFO strings were apparently
not terminated properly. Not attempted to work around this.
- LCC: not tested. Some fixes are in there from the last time we tried
this, but then the build ultimately failed and I haven't tried this
since that was fixed.
- Dev-C++: untested. (Haven't done anything special.)
- Unix Gtk/autoconf Makefiles work as before.
[originally from svn r6374]
[r6367 == f86ad059db]
[this svn revision also touched putty-wishlist]
long last to move all the Windows-specific source files down into a
`windows' subdirectory. Only platform-specific files remain at the
top level. With any luck this will act as a hint to anyone still
contemplating sending us a Windows-centric patch...
[originally from svn r4792]
