This allows me to share just one definition of the packet types
between the enum declarations in ssh.h and the string translation
functions in sshcommon.c. No functional change.
The style of list macro is slightly unusual; instead of the
traditional 'X-macro' in which LIST(X) expands to invocations of the
form X(list element), this is an 'X-y macro', where LIST(X,y) expands
to invocations of the form X(y, list element). That style makes it
possible to wrap the list macro up in another macro and pass a
parameter through from the wrapper to the per-element macro. I'm not
using that facility just yet, but I will in the next commit.
Moved the typedef of BinaryPacketProtocol into defs.h on the general
principle that it's just the kind of thing that ought to go there;
also removed the declaration of pq_base_init from ssh.h on the grounds
that there's never been any such function! (At least, not in public
source control - it existed in an early draft of commit 6e24b7d58.)
I've removed the encrypted_len fields from PktIn and PktOut, which
were used to communicate from the BPP to ssh.c how much each packet
contributed to the amount of data encrypted with a given set of cipher
keys. It seems more sensible to have the BPP itself keep that counter
- especially since only one of the three BPPs even needs to count it
at all. So now there's a new DataTransferStats structure which the BPP
updates, and ssh.c only needs to check it for overflow and reset the
limits.
That function _did_ depend on ssh.c's internal facilities, namely the
layout of 'struct ssh_channel'. In place of that, it now takes an
extra integer argument telling it where to find the channel id in
whatever data structure you give it a tree of - so now I can split up
the SSH-1 and SSH-2 channel handling without losing the services of
that nice channel-number allocator.
While I'm at it, I've brought it all into a single function: the
parsing of data from Conf, the list of modes, and even the old
callback system for writing to the destination buffer is now a simple
if statement that formats mode parameters as byte or uint32 depending
on SSH version. Also, the terminal speeds and the end byte are part of
the same setup, so it's all together in one place instead of scattered
all over ssh.c.
It's really just a concatenator for a pair of linked lists, but
unhelpfully restricted in which of the lists it replaces with the
output. Better to have a three-argument function that puts the output
wherever you like, whether it overlaps either or neither one of the
inputs.
Some upcoming restructuring I've got planned will need to pass output
packets back and forth on queues, as well as input ones. So here's a
change that arranges that we can have a PktInQueue and a PktOutQueue,
sharing most of their implementation via a PacketQueueBase structure
which links together the PacketQueueNode fields in the two packet
structures.
There's a tricksy bit of macro manoeuvring to get all of this
type-checked, so that I can't accidentally link a PktOut on to a
PktInQueue or vice versa. It works by having the main queue functions
wrapped by macros; when receiving a packet structure on input, they
type-check it against the queue structure and then automatically look
up its qnode field to pass to the underlying PacketQueueBase function;
on output, they translate a returned PacketQueueNode back to its
containing packet type by calling a 'get' function pointer.
This should make it easier to do formatted-string based logging
outside ssh.c, because I can wrap up a local macro in any source file
I like that expands to logevent_and_free(wherever my Frontend is,
dupprintf(macro argument)).
It caused yet another stub function to be needed in testbn, but there
we go.
(Also, while I'm here, removed a redundant declaration of logevent
itself from ssh.h. The one in putty.h is all we need.)
This is a vtable that wraps up all the functionality required from the
SSH connection layer by associated modules like port forwarding and
connection sharing. This extra layer of indirection adds nothing
useful right now, but when I later separate the SSH-1 and SSH-2
connection layer implementations, it will be convenient for each one
to be able to implement this vtable in terms of its own internal data
structures.
To simplify this vtable, I've moved a lot of the logging duties
relating to connection sharing out of ssh.c into sshshare.c: now it
handles nearly all the logging itself relating to setting up
connection sharing in the first place and downstreams connecting and
disconnecting. The only exception is the 'Reusing a shared connection'
announcement in the console window, which is now done in ssh.c by
detecting downstream status immediately after setup.
The tree234 storing currently active port forwardings - both local and
remote - now lives in portfwd.c, as does the complicated function that
updates it based on a Conf listing the new set of desired forwardings.
Local port forwardings are passed to ssh.c via the same route as
before - once the listening port receives a connection and portfwd.c
knows where it should be directed to (in particular, after the SOCKS
exchange, if any), it calls ssh_send_port_open.
Remote forwardings are now initiated by calling ssh_rportfwd_alloc,
which adds an entry to the rportfwds tree (which _is_ still in ssh.c,
and still confusingly sorted by a different criterion depending on SSH
protocol version) and sends out the appropriate protocol request.
ssh_rportfwd_remove cancels one again, sending a protocol request too.
Those functions look enough like ssh_{alloc,remove}_sharing_rportfwd
that I've merged those into the new pair as well - now allocating an
rportfwd allows you to specify either a destination host/port or a
sharing context, and returns a handy pointer you can use to cancel the
forwarding later.
Clients outside ssh.c - all implementations of Channel - will now not
see the ssh_channel data type itself, but only a subobject of the
interface type SshChannel. All the sshfwd_* functions have become
methods in that interface type's vtable (though, wrapped in the usual
kind of macros, the call sites look identical).
This paves the way for me to split up the SSH-1 and SSH-2 connection
layers and have each one lay out its channel bookkeeping structure as
it sees fit; as long as they each provide an implementation of the
sshfwd_ method family, the types behind that need not look different.
A minor good effect of this is that the sshfwd_ methods are no longer
global symbols, so they don't have to be stubbed in Unix Pageant to
get it to compile.
This was mildly fiddly because there's a single vtable structure that
implements two distinct interface types, one for compression and one
for decompression - and I have actually confused them before now
(commit d4304f1b7), so I think it's important to make them actually be
separate types!
hmacmd5_do_hmac and hmac_sha1_simple should be consistently referring
to input memory blocks as 'const void *', but one had pointlessly
typed the pointer as 'const unsigned char *' and the other had missed
out the consts.
The new version of ssh_hash has the same nice property as ssh2_mac,
that I can make the generic interface object type function directly as
a BinarySink so that clients don't have to call h->sink() and worry
about the separate sink object they get back from that.
This piece of tidying-up has come out particularly well in terms of
saving tedious repetition and boilerplate. I've managed to remove
three pointless methods from every MAC implementation by means of
writing them once centrally in terms of the implementation-specific
methods; another method (hmacmd5_sink) vanished because I was able to
make the interface type 'ssh2_mac' be directly usable as a BinarySink
by way of a new delegation system; and because all the method
implementations can now find their own vtable, I was even able to
merge a lot of keying and output functions that had previously
differed only in length parameters by having them look up the lengths
in whatever vtable they were passed.
This is more or less the same job as the SSH-1 case, only more
extensive, because we have a wider range of ciphers.
I'm a bit disappointed about the AES case, in particular, because I
feel as if it ought to have been possible to arrange to combine this
layer of vtable dispatch with the subsidiary one that selects between
hardware and software implementations of the underlying cipher. I may
come back later and have another try at that, in fact.
The interchangeable system of SSH-1 ciphers previously followed the
same pattern as the backends and the public-key algorithms, in that
all the clients would maintain two separate pointers, one to the
vtable and the other to the individual instance / context. Now I've
merged them, just as I did with those other two, so that you only cart
around a single pointer, which has a vtable pointer inside it and a
type distinguishing it from an instance of any of the other
interchangeable sets of algorithms.
ATOFFSET in dialog.h became obsolete when the old 'struct Config' gave
way to the new Conf, because its only use was to identify fields in
struct Config for the generic control handlers to update.
And lenof in ssh.h is redundant because there's also a copy in misc.h.
(Which is already included _everywhere_ that lenof is used - I didn't
even need to add any instances of #include "misc.h" after removing the
copy in ssh.h.)
This was a particularly confusing piece of type-danger, because three
different types were passed outside sshshare.c as 'void *' and only
human vigilance prevented one coming back as the wrong one. Now they
all keep their opaque structure tags when they move through other
parts of the code.
There's now an interface called 'Channel', which handles the local
side of an SSH connection-layer channel, in terms of knowing where to
send incoming channel data to, whether to close the channel, etc.
Channel and the previous 'struct ssh_channel' mutually refer. The
latter contains all the SSH-specific parts, and as much of the common
logic as possible: in particular, Channel doesn't have to know
anything about SSH packet formats, or which SSH protocol version is in
use, or deal with all the fiddly stuff about window sizes - with the
exception that x11fwd.c's implementation of it does have to be able to
ask for a small fixed initial window size for the bodgy system that
distinguishes upstream from downstream X forwardings.
I've taken the opportunity to move the code implementing the detailed
behaviour of agent forwarding out of ssh.c, now that all of it is on
the far side of a uniform interface. (This also means that if I later
implement agent forwarding directly to a Unix socket as an
alternative, it'll be a matter of changing just the one call to
agentf_new() that makes the Channel to plug into a forwarding.)
This is another major source of unexplained 'void *' parameters
throughout the code.
In particular, the currently unused testback.c actually gave the wrong
pointer type to its internal store of the frontend handle - it cast
the input void * to a Terminal *, from which it got implicitly cast
back again when calling from_backend, and nobody noticed. Now it uses
the right type internally as well as externally.
Nearly every part of the code that ever handles a full backend
structure has historically done it using a pair of pointer variables,
one pointing at a constant struct full of function pointers, and the
other pointing to a 'void *' state object that's passed to each of
those.
While I'm modernising the rest of the code, this seems like a good
time to turn that into the same more or less type-safe and less
cumbersome system as I'm using for other parts of the code, such as
Socket, Plug, BinaryPacketProtocol and so forth: the Backend structure
contains a vtable pointer, and a system of macro wrappers handles
dispatching through that vtable.
Now when we construct a packet containing sensitive data, we just set
a field saying '... and make it take up at least this much space, to
disguise its true size', and nothing in the rest of the system worries
about that flag until ssh2bpp.c acts on it.
Also, I've changed the strategy for doing the padding. Previously, we
were following the real packet with an SSH_MSG_IGNORE to make up the
size. But that was only a partial defence: it works OK against passive
traffic analysis, but an attacker proxying the TCP stream and
dribbling it out one byte at a time could still have found out the
size of the real packet by noting when the dribbled data provoked a
response. Now I put the SSH_MSG_IGNORE _first_, which should defeat
that attack.
But that in turn doesn't work when we're doing compression, because we
can't predict the compressed sizes accurately enough to make that
strategy sensible. Fortunately, compression provides an alternative
strategy anyway: if we've got zlib turned on when we send one of these
sensitive packets, then we can pad out the compressed zlib data as
much as we like by adding empty RFC1951 blocks (effectively chaining
ZLIB_PARTIAL_FLUSHes). So both strategies should now be dribble-proof.
The return value wasn't used to indicate failure; it only indicated
whether any compression was being done at all or whether the
compression method was ssh_comp_none, and we can tell the latter just
as well by the fact that its init function returns a null context
pointer.
sshbpp.h now defines a classoid that encapsulates both directions of
an SSH binary packet protocol - that is, a system for reading a
bufchain of incoming data and turning it into a stream of PktIn, and
another system for taking a PktOut and turning it into data on an
outgoing bufchain.
The state structure in each of those files contains everything that
used to be in the 'rdpkt2_state' structure and its friends, and also
quite a lot of bits and pieces like cipher and MAC states that used to
live in the main Ssh structure.
One minor effect of this layer separation is that I've had to extend
the packet dispatch table by one, because the BPP layer can no longer
directly trigger sending of SSH_MSG_UNIMPLEMENTED for a message too
short to have a type byte. Instead, I extend the PktIn type field to
use an out-of-range value to encode that, and the easiest way to make
that trigger an UNIMPLEMENTED message is to have the dispatch table
contain an entry for it.
(That's a system that may come in useful again - I was also wondering
about inventing a fake type code to indicate network EOF, so that that
could be propagated through the layers and be handled by whichever one
currently knew best how to respond.)
I've also moved the packet-censoring code into its own pair of files,
partly because I was going to want to do that anyway sooner or later,
and mostly because it's called from the BPP code, and the SSH-2
version in particular has to be called from both the main SSH-2 BPP
and the bare unencrypted protocol used for connection sharing. While I
was at it, I took the opportunity to merge the outgoing and incoming
censor functions, so that the parts that were common between them
(e.g. CHANNEL_DATA messages look the same in both directions) didn't
need to be repeated.
ssh.c has been an unmanageably huge monolith of a source file for too
long, and it's finally time I started breaking it up into smaller
pieces. The first step is to move some declarations - basic types like
packets and packet queues, standard constants, enums, and the
coroutine system - into headers where other files can see them.
It was horrible - even if harmless in practice - that it wrote the
NATed channel id over its input buffer, and I think it's worth the
extra memory management to avoid doing that.
After Pavel Kryukov pointed out that I have to put _something_ in the
'ssh_key' structure, I thought of an actually useful thing to put
there: why not make it store a pointer to the ssh_keyalg structure?
Then ssh_key becomes a classoid - or perhaps 'traitoid' is a closer
analogy - in the same style as Socket and Plug. And just like Socket
and Plug, I've also arranged a system of wrapper macros that avoid the
need to mention the 'object' whose method you're invoking twice at
each call site.
The new vtable pointer directly replaces an existing field of struct
ec_key (which was usable by several different ssh_keyalgs, so it
already had to store a pointer to the currently active one), and also
replaces the 'alg' field of the ssh2_userkey structure that wraps up a
cryptographic key with its comment field.
I've also taken the opportunity to clean things up a bit in general:
most of the methods now have new and clearer names (e.g. you'd never
know that 'newkey' made a public-only key while 'createkey' made a
public+private key pair unless you went and looked it up, but now
they're called 'new_pub' and 'new_priv' you might be in with a
chance), and I've completely removed the openssh_private_npieces field
after realising that it was duplicating information that is actually
_more_ conveniently obtained by calling the new_priv_openssh method
(formerly openssh_createkey) and throwing away the result.
This parameter returned a substring of the input, which was used for
two purposes. Firstly, it was used to hash the host and server keys
during the initial SSH-1 key setup phase; secondly, it was used to
check the keys in Pageant against the public key blob of a key
specified on the command line.
Unfortunately, those two purposes didn't agree! The first one needs
just the bare key modulus bytes (without even the SSH-1 mpint length
header); the second needs the entire key blob. So, actually, it seems
to have never worked in SSH-1 to say 'putty -i keyfile' and have PuTTY
find that key in Pageant and not have to ask for the passphrase to
decrypt the version on disk.
Fixed by removing that parameter completely, which simplifies all the
_other_ call sites, and replacing it by custom code in those two
places that each does the actually right thing.
It's an SSH-1 specific function, so it should have a name reflecting
that, and it didn't. Also it had one of those outdated APIs involving
passing it a client-allocated buffer and size. Now it has a sensible
name, and internally it constructs the output string using a strbuf
and returns it dynamically allocated.
Another piece of half-finished machinery that I can't have tested
properly when I set up connection sharing: I had the function
ssh_alloc_sharing_rportfwd which is how sshshare.c asks ssh.c to start
sending it channel-open requests for a given remote forwarded port,
but I had no companion function that removes one of those requests
again when a downstream remote port forwarding goes away (either by
mid-session cancel-tcpip-forward or by the whole downstream
disconnecting).
As a result, the _second_ attempt to set up the same remote port
forwarding, after a sharing downstream had done so once and then
stopped, would quietly fail.
There are several old functions that the previous commits have removed
all, or nearly all, of the references to. match_ssh_id is superseded
by ptrlen_eq_string; get_ssh_{string,uint32} is yet another replicated
set of decode functions (this time _partly_ centralised into misc.c);
the old APIs for the SSH-1 RSA decode functions are gone (together
with their last couple of holdout clients), as are
ssh{1,2}_{read,write}_bignum and ssh{1,2}_bignum_length.
Particularly odd was the use of ssh1_{read,write}_bignum in the SSH-2
Diffie-Hellman implementation. I'd completely forgotten I did that!
Now replaced with a raw bignum_from_bytes, which is simpler anyway.
Quite a few of the function pointers in the ssh_keyalg vtable now take
ptrlen arguments in place of separate pointer and length pairs.
Meanwhile, the various key types' implementations of those functions
now work by initialising a BinarySource with the input ptrlen and
using the new decode functions to walk along it.
One exception is the openssh_createkey method which reads a private
key in the wire format used by OpenSSH's SSH-2 agent protocol, which
has to consume a prefix of a larger data stream, and tell the caller
how much of that data was the private key. That function now takes an
actual BinarySource, and passes that directly to the decode functions,
so that on return the caller finds that the BinarySource's read
pointer has been advanced exactly past the private key.
This let me throw away _several_ reimplementations of mpint-reading
functions, one in each of sshrsa, sshdss.c and sshecc.c. Worse still,
they didn't all have exactly the SSH-2 semantics, because the thing in
sshrsa.c whose name suggested it was an mpint-reading function
actually tolerated the wrong number of leading zero bytes, which it
had to be able to do to cope with the "ssh-rsa" signature format which
contains a thing that isn't quite an SSH-2 mpint. Now that deviation
is clearly commented!
Another set of localised decoding routines get thrown away here. Also,
I've changed the APIs of a couple of helper functions in x11fwd.c to
take ptrlens in place of zero-terminated C strings, because that's the
format in which they come back from the decode, and it saves mallocing
a zero-terminated version of each one just to pass to those helpers.
The SSH-1 RSA key reading functions now have BinarySource-shaped get_*
forms, although for the moment I'm still supporting the old API as a
wrapper on the new one, because I haven't switched over the client
code yet. Also, rsa_public_blob_len uses the new system internally,
although its API is unchanged.
This is the companion to the BinarySink system I introduced a couple
of weeks ago, and provides the same type-genericity which will let me
use the same get_* routines on an SSH packet, an SFTP packet or
anything else that chooses to include an implementing substructure.
However, unlike BinarySink which contained a (one-function) vtable,
BinarySource contains only mutable data fields - so another thing you
might very well want to do is to simply instantiate a bare one without
any containing object at all. I couldn't quite coerce C into letting
me use the same setup macro in both cases, so I've arranged a
BinarySource_INIT you can use on larger implementing objects and a
BinarySource_BARE_INIT you can use on a BinarySource not contained in
anything.
The API follows the general principle that even if decoding fails, the
decode functions will always return _some_ kind of value, with the
same dynamically-allocated-ness they would have used for a completely
successful value. But they also set an error flag in the BinarySource
which can be tested later. So instead of having to decode a 10-field
packet by means of 10 separate 'if (!get_foo(src)) throw error'
clauses, you can just write 10 'variable = get_foo(src)' statements
followed by a single check of get_err(src), and if the error check
fails, you have to do exactly the same set of frees you would have
after a successful decode.
This wraps up a (pointer, length) pair into a convenient struct that
lets me return it by value from a function, and also pass it through
to other functions in one go.
Ideally quite a lot of this code base could be switched over to using
ptrlen in place of separate pointer and length variables or function
parameters. (In fact, in my personal ideal conception of C, the usual
string type would be of this form, and all the string.h functions
would operate on ptrlens instead of zero-terminated 'char *'.)
For the moment, I'm just introducing it to make some upcoming
refactoring less inconvenient. Bulk migration of existing code to
ptrlen is a project for another time.
Along with the type itself, I've provided a convenient system of
including the contents of a ptrlen in a printf; a constructor function
that wraps up a pointer and length so you can make a ptrlen on the fly
in mid-expression; a function to compare a ptrlen against an ordinary
C string (which I mostly expect to use with string literals); and a
function 'mkstr' to make a dynamically allocated C string out of one.
That last function replaces a function of the same name in sftp.c,
which I'm promoting to a whole-codebase facility and adjusting its
API.
Now I've got FROMFIELD, I can rework it so that structures providing
an implementation of the Socket or Plug trait no longer have to have
the vtable pointer as the very first thing in the structure. In
particular, this means that the ProxySocket structure can now directly
implement _both_ the Socket and Plug traits, which is always
_logically_ how it's worked, but previously it had to be implemented
via two separate structs linked to each other.
During last week's work, I made a mistake in which I got the arguments
backwards in one of the key-blob-generating functions - mistakenly
swapped the 'void *' key instance with the 'BinarySink *' output
destination - and I didn't spot the mistake until run time, because in
C you can implicitly convert both to and from void * and so there was
no compile-time failure of type checking.
Now that I've introduced the FROMFIELD macro that downcasts a pointer
to one field of a structure to retrieve a pointer to the whole
structure, I think I might start using that more widely to indicate
this kind of polymorphic subtyping. So now all the public-key
functions in the struct ssh_signkey vtable handle their data instance
in the form of a pointer to a subfield of a new zero-sized structure
type 'ssh_key', which outside the key implementations indicates 'this
is some kind of key instance but it could be of any type'; they
downcast that pointer internally using FROMFIELD in place of the
previous ordinary C cast, and return one by returning &foo->sshk for
whatever foo they've just made up.
The sshk member is not at the beginning of the structure, which means
all those FROMFIELDs and &key->sshk are actually adding and
subtracting an offset. Of course I could have put the member at the
start anyway, but I had the idea that it's actually a feature _not_ to
have the two types start at the same address, because it means you
should notice earlier rather than later if you absentmindedly cast
from one to the other directly rather than by the approved method (in
particular, if you accidentally assign one through a void * and back
without even _noticing_ you perpetrated a cast). In particular, this
enforces that you can't sfree() the thing even once without realising
you should instead of called the right freekey function. (I found
several bugs by this method during initial testing, so I think it's
already proved its worth!)
While I'm here, I've also renamed the vtable structure ssh_signkey to
ssh_keyalg, because it was a confusing name anyway - it describes the
_algorithm_ for handling all keys of that type, not a specific key. So
ssh_keyalg is the collection of code, and ssh_key is one instance of
the data it handles.
This is a cleanup I started to notice a need for during the BinarySink
work. It removes a lot of faffing about casting things to char * or
unsigned char * so that some API will accept them, even though lots of
such APIs really take a plain 'block of raw binary data' argument and
don't care what C thinks the signedness of that data might be - they
may well reinterpret it back and forth internally.
So I've tried to arrange for all the function call APIs that ought to
have a void * (or const void *) to have one, and those that need to do
pointer arithmetic on the parameter internally can cast it back at the
top of the function. That saves endless ad-hoc casts at the call
sites.
There was a time, back when the USA was more vigorously against
cryptography, when we toyed with the idea of having a version of PuTTY
that outsourced its cryptographic primitives to the Microsoft optional
encryption API, which would effectively create a tool that acted like
PuTTY proper on a system with that API installed, but automatically
degraded to being PuTTYtel on a system without, and meanwhile (so went
the theory) it could be moved freely across national borders with
crypto restrictions, because it didn't _contain_ any of the actual
crypto.
I don't recall that we ever got it working at all. And certainly the
vestiges of it here and there in the current code are completely
unworkable - they refer to an 'mscrypto.c' that doesn't even exist,
and the ifdefs in the definitions of structures like RSAKey and
MD5Context are not matched by any corresponding ifdefs in the code. So
I ought to have got round to removing it long ago, in order to avoid
misleading anyone.
Just as I did a few commits ago with the low-level SHA_Bytes type
functions, the ssh_hash and ssh_mac abstract types now no longer have
a direct foo->bytes() update method at all. Instead, each one has a
foo->sink() function that returns a BinarySink with the same lifetime
as the hash context, and then the caller can feed data into that in
the usual way.
This lets me get rid of a couple more duplicate marshalling routines
in ssh.c: hash_string(), hash_uint32(), hash_mpint().
This affects all the functions that generate public and private key
and signature blobs of all kinds, plus ssh_ecdhkex_getpublic. Instead
of returning a bare block of memory and taking an extra 'int *length'
parameter, all these functions now write to a BinarySink, and it's the
caller's job to have prepared an appropriate one where they want the
output to go (usually a strbuf).
The main value of this change is that those blob-generation functions
were chock full of ad-hoc length-counting and data marshalling. You
have only to look at rsa2_{public,private}_blob, for example, to see
the kind of thing I was keen to get rid of!
In fact, those functions don't even exist any more. The only way to
get data into a primitive hash state is via the new put_* system. Of
course, that means put_data() is a viable replacement for every
previous call to one of the per-hash update functions - but just
mechanically doing that would have missed the opportunity to simplify
a lot of the call sites.
I've finally got tired of all the code throughout PuTTY that repeats
the same logic about how to format the SSH binary primitives like
uint32, string, mpint. We've got reasonably organised code in ssh.c
that appends things like that to 'struct Packet'; something similar in
sftp.c which repeats a lot of the work; utility functions in various
places to format an mpint to feed to one or another hash function; and
no end of totally ad-hoc stuff in functions like public key blob
formatters which actually have to _count up_ the size of data
painstakingly, then malloc exactly that much and mess about with
PUT_32BIT.
It's time to bring all of that into one place, and stop repeating
myself in error-prone ways everywhere. The new marshal.h defines a
system in which I centralise all the actual marshalling functions, and
then layer a touch of C macro trickery on top to allow me to (look as
if I) pass a wide range of different types to those functions, as long
as the target type has been set up in the right way to have a write()
function.
This commit adds the new header and source file, and sets up some
general centralised types (strbuf and the various hash-function
contexts like SHA_State), but doesn't use the new calls for anything
yet.
(I've also renamed some internal functions in import.c which were
using the same names that I've just defined macros over. That won't
last long - those functions are going to go away soon, so the changed
names are strictly temporary.)
This centralises a few things that multiple header files were
previously defining, and were protecting against each other's
redefinition with ifdefs - small things like structs and typedefs. Now
all those things are in a defs.h which is by definition safe to
include _first_ (out of all the codebase-local headers) and only need
to be defined once.
Lots of functions had really generic names (like 'makekey'), or names
that missed out an important concept (like 'rsakey_pubblob', which
loads a public blob from a _file_ and doesn't generate it from an
in-memory representation at all). Also, the opaque 'int order' that
distinguishes the two formats of public key blob is now a mnemonic
enumeration, and while I'm at it, rsa_ssh1_public_blob takes one of
those as an extra argument.
This is a heavily edited (by me) version of a patch originally due to
Nico Williams and Viktor Dukhovni. Their comments:
* Don't delegate credentials when rekeying unless there's a new TGT
or the old service ticket is nearly expired.
* Check for the above conditions more frequently (every two minutes
by default) and rekey when we would delegate credentials.
* Do not rekey with very short service ticket lifetimes; some GSSAPI
libraries may lose the race to use an almost expired ticket. Adjust
the timing of rekey checks to try to avoid this possibility.
My further comments:
The most interesting thing about this patch to me is that the use of
GSS key exchange causes a switch over to a completely different model
of what host keys are for. This comes from RFC 4462 section 2.1: the
basic idea is that when your session is mostly bidirectionally
authenticated by the GSSAPI exchanges happening in initial kex and
every rekey, host keys become more or less vestigial, and their
remaining purpose is to allow a rekey to happen if the requirements of
the SSH protocol demand it at an awkward moment when the GSS
credentials are not currently available (e.g. timed out and haven't
been renewed yet). As such, there's no need for host keys to be
_permanent_ or to be a reliable identifier of a particular host, and
RFC 4462 allows for the possibility that they might be purely
transient and only for this kind of emergency fallback purpose.
Therefore, once PuTTY has done a GSS key exchange, it disconnects
itself completely from the permanent host key cache functions in
storage.h, and instead switches to a _transient_ host key cache stored
in memory with the lifetime of just that SSH session. That cache is
populated with keys received from the server as a side effect of GSS
kex (via the optional SSH2_MSG_KEXGSS_HOSTKEY message), and used if
later in the session we have to fall back to a non-GSS key exchange.
However, in practice servers we've tested against do not send a host
key in that way, so we also have a fallback method of populating the
transient cache by triggering an immediate non-GSS rekey straight
after userauth (reusing the code path we also use to turn on OpenSSH
delayed encryption without the race condition).
__clang_major__ and __clang_minor__ macros may be overriden
in Apple and other compilers. Instead of them, we use
__has_attribute(target) to check whether Clang supports per-function
targeted build and __has_include() to check if there are intrinsic
header files
These pointers will be required in next commits
where subroutines with new instructions are introduced.
Depending on CPUID dynamic check, pointers will refer to old
SW-only implementations or to new instructions subroutines
These must have been absent-mindedly copied from function declarations
of the form 'const type *fn(args)', where the 'const' is meaningful
and describes the data pointed to by the returned pointer, to
functions of the form 'const type fn(args)' where the 'const' is
completely pointless.
I can't believe this codebase is around 20 years old and has had
multiple giant const-fixing patches, and yet there are _still_ things
that should have been const for years and aren't.
Jacob pointed out that a free-text field for entering a key size in
bits is all very well for key types where we actually _can_ generate a
key to a size of your choice, but less useful for key types where
there are only three (or one) legal values for the field, especially
if we don't _say_ what they are.
So I've revamped the UI a bit: now, in ECDSA mode, you get a dropdown
list selector showing the available elliptic curves (and they're even
named, rather than just given by bit count), and in ED25519 mode even
that disappears. The curve selector for ECDSA and the bits selector
for RSA/DSA are independent controls, so each one remembers its last
known value even while temporarily hidden in favour of the other.
The actual generation function still expects a bit count rather than
an actual curve or algorithm ID, so the easiest way to actually
arrange to populate the drop-down list was to have an array of bit
counts exposed by sshecc.c. That's a bit ugly, but there we go.
One small functional change: if you enter an absurdly low value into
the RSA/DSA bit count box (under 256), PuTTYgen used to give a warning
and reset it to 256. Now it resets it to the default key length of
2048, basically because I was touching that code anyway to change a
variable name and just couldn't bring myself to leave it in a state
where it intentionally chose such an utterly useless key size. Of
course this doesn't prevent generation of 256-bit keys if someone
still really wants one - it just means they don't get one selected as
the result of a typo.
A Plink invocation of the form 'plink -shareexists <session>' tests
for a currently live connection-sharing upstream for the session in
question. <session> can be any syntax you'd use with Plink to make the
actual connection (a host/port number, a bare saved session name,
-load, whatever).
I envisage this being useful for things like adaptive proxying - e.g.
if you want to connect to host A which you can't route to directly,
and you might already have a connection to either of hosts B or C
which are viable proxies, then you could write a proxy shell script
which checks whether you already have an upstream for B or C and goes
via whichever one is currently active.
Testing for the upstream's existence has to be done by actually
connecting to its socket, because on Unix the mere existence of a
Unix-domain socket file doesn't guarantee that there's a process
listening to it. So we make a test connection, and then immediately
disconnect; hence, that shows up in the upstream's event log.
The revamp of key generation in commit e460f3083 made the assumption
that you could decide how many bytes of key material to generate by
converting cipher->keylen from bits to bytes. This is a good
assumption for all ciphers except DES/3DES: since the SSH DES key
setup ignores one bit in every byte of key material it's given, you
need more bytes than its keylen field would have you believe. So
currently the DES ciphers aren't being keyed correctly.
The original keylen field is used for deciding how big a DH group to
request, and on that basis I think it still makes sense to keep it
reflecting the true entropy of a cipher key. So it turns out we need
two _separate_ key length fields per cipher - one for the real
entropy, and one for the much more obvious purpose of knowing how much
data to ask for from ssh2_mkkey.
A compensatory advantage, though, is that we can now measure the
latter directly in bytes rather than bits, so we no longer have to
faff about with dividing by 8 and rounding up.
The key derivation code has been assuming (though non-critically, as
it happens) that the size of the MAC output is the same as the size of
the MAC key. That isn't even a good assumption for the HMAC family,
due to HMAC-SHA1-96 and also the bug-compatible versions of HMAC-SHA1
that only use 16 bytes of key material; so now we have an explicit
key-length field separate from the MAC-length field.
This permits a hash state to be cloned in the middle of being used, so
that multiple strings with the same prefix can be hashed without
having to repeat all the computation over the prefix.
Having done that, we'll also sometimes need to free a hash state that
we aren't generating actual hash output from, so we need a free method
as well.
It seems like quite an important thing to mention in the event log!
Suppose there's a bug affecting only one curve, for example? Fixed-
group Diffie-Hellman has always logged the group, but the ECDH log
message just told you the hash and not also the curve.
To implement this, I've added a 'textname' field to all elliptic
curves, whether they're used for kex or signing or both, suitable for
use in this log message and any others we might find a need for in
future.
When anyone connects to a PuTTY tool's listening socket - whether it's
a user of a local->remote port forwarding, a connection-sharing
downstream or a client of Pageant - we'd like to log as much
information as we can find out about where the connection came from.
To that end, I've implemented a function sk_peer_info() in the socket
abstraction, which returns a freeform text string as best it can (or
NULL, if it can't get anything at all) describing the thing at the
other end of the connection. For TCP connections, this is done using
getpeername() to get an IP address and port in the obvious way; for
Unix-domain sockets, we attempt SO_PEERCRED (conditionalised on some
moderately hairy autoconfery) to get the pid and owner of the peer. I
haven't implemented anything for Windows named pipes, but I will if I
hear of anything useful.
Having found a lot of unfixed constness issues in recent development,
I thought perhaps it was time to get proactive, so I compiled the
whole codebase with -Wwrite-strings. That turned up a huge load of
const problems, which I've fixed in this commit: the Unix build now
goes cleanly through with -Wwrite-strings, and the Windows build is as
close as I could get it (there are some lingering issues due to
occasional Windows API functions like AcquireCredentialsHandle not
having the right constness).
Notable fallout beyond the purely mechanical changing of types:
- the stuff saved by cmdline_save_param() is now explicitly
dupstr()ed, and freed in cmdline_run_saved.
- I couldn't make both string arguments to cmdline_process_param()
const, because it intentionally writes to one of them in the case
where it's the argument to -pw (in the vain hope of being at least
slightly friendly to 'ps'), so elsewhere I had to temporarily
dupstr() something for the sake of passing it to that function
- I had to invent a silly parallel version of const_cmp() so I could
pass const string literals in to lookup functions.
- stripslashes() in pscp.c and psftp.c has the annoying strchr nature
The ec_name_to_curve and ec_curve_to_name functions shouldn't really
have had to exist at all: whenever any part of the PuTTY codebase
starts using sshecc.c, it's starting from an ssh_signkey or ssh_kex
pointer already found by some other means. So if we make sure not to
lose that pointer, we should never need to do any string-based lookups
to find the curve we want, and conversely, when we need to know the
name of our curve or our algorithm, we should be able to look it up as
a straightforward const char * starting from the algorithm pointer.
This commit cleans things up so that that is indeed what happens. The
ssh_signkey and ssh_kex structures defined in sshecc.c now have
'extra' fields containing pointers to all the necessary stuff;
ec_name_to_curve and ec_curve_to_name have been completely removed;
struct ec_curve has a string field giving the curve's name (but only
for those curves which _have_ a name exposed in the wire protocol,
i.e. the three NIST ones); struct ec_key keeps a pointer to the
ssh_signkey it started from, and uses that to remember the algorithm
name rather than reconstructing it from the curve. And I think I've
got rid of all the ad-hockery scattered around the code that switches
on curve->fieldBits or manually constructs curve names using stuff
like sprintf("nistp%d"); the only remaining switch on fieldBits
(necessary because that's the UI for choosing a curve in PuTTYgen) is
at least centralised into one place in sshecc.c.
One user-visible result is that the format of ed25519 host keys in the
registry has changed: there's now no curve name prefix on them,
because I think it's not really right to make up a name to use. So any
early adopters who've been using snapshot PuTTY in the last week will
be inconvenienced; sorry about that.
This gives families of public key and kex functions (by which I mean
those sharing a set of methods) a place to store parameters that allow
the methods to vary depending on which exact algorithm is in use.
The ssh_kex structure already had a set of parameters specific to
Diffie-Hellman key exchange; I've moved those into sshdh.c and made
them part of the 'extra' structure for that family only, so that
unrelated kex methods don't have to faff about saying NULL,NULL,0,0.
(This required me to write an extra accessor function for ssh.c to ask
whether a DH method was group-exchange style or fixed-group style, but
that doesn't seem too silly.)
Not all of them, but the ones that don't get a 'void *key' parameter.
This means I can share methods between multiple ssh_signkey
structures, and still give those methods an easy way to find out which
public key method they're dealing with, by loading parameters from a
larger structure in which the ssh_signkey is the first element.
(In OO terms, I'm arranging that all static methods of my public key
classes get a pointer to the class vtable, to make up for not having a
pointer to the class instance.)
I haven't actually done anything with the new facility in this commit,
but it will shortly allow me to clean up the constant lookups by curve
name in the ECDSA code.
All the name strings in ssh_cipher, ssh_mac, ssh_hash, ssh_signkey
point to compile-time string literals, hence should obviously be const
char *.
Most of these const-correctness patches are just a mechanical job of
adding a 'const' in the one place you need it right now, and then
chasing the implications through the code adding further consts until
it compiles. But this one has actually shown up a bug: the 'algorithm'
output parameter in ssh2_userkey_loadpub was sometimes returning a
pointer to a string literal, and sometimes a pointer to dynamically
allocated memory, so callers were forced to either sometimes leak
memory or sometimes free a bad thing. Now it's consistently
dynamically allocated, and should be freed everywhere too.
There were ad-hoc functions for fingerprinting a bare key blob in both
cmdgen.c and pageant.c, not quite doing the same thing. Also, every
SSH-2 public key algorithm in the code base included a dedicated
fingerprint() method, which is completely pointless since SSH-2 key
fingerprints are computed in an algorithm-independent way (just hash
the standard-format public key blob), so each of those methods was
just duplicating the work of the public_blob() method with a less
general output mechanism.
Now sshpubk.c centrally provides an ssh2_fingerprint_blob() function
that does all the real work, plus an ssh2_fingerprint() function that
wraps it and deals with calling public_blob() to get something to
fingerprint. And the fingerprint() method has been completely removed
from ssh_signkey and all its implementations, and good riddance.
There was a fair amount of duplication between Windows and Unix
PuTTYgen, and some confusion over writing things to FILE * and
formatting them internally into strings. I think all the public-key
output code now lives in sshpubk.c, and there's only one copy of the
code to generate each format.
The rsakey_pubblob() and ssh2_userkey_loadpub() functions, which
expected to be given a private key file and load only the unencrypted
public half, now also cope with any of the public-only formats I know
about (SSH-1 only has one, whereas SSH-2 has the RFC 4716 format and
OpenSSH's one-line format) and return an appropriate public key blob
from each of those too.
cmdgen now supports this functionality, by permitting public key files
to be loaded and used by any operation that doesn't need the private
key: so you can convert back and forth between the SSH-2 public
formats, or list the file's fingerprint.
When I implemented reading and writing of the new format a couple of
weeks ago, I kept them strictly separate in the UI, so you have to ask
for the format you want when exporting. But in fact this is silly,
because not every key type can be saved in both formats, and OpenSSH
itself has the policy of using the old format for key types it can
handle, unless specifically asked to use the new one.
So I've now arranged that the key file format enum has three values
for OpenSSH: PEM, NEW and AUTO. Files being loaded are identified as
either PEM or NEW, which describe the two physical file formats. But
exporting UIs present either AUTO or NEW, where AUTO is the virtual
format meaning 'save in the old format if possible, otherwise the new
one'.
This is the kex protocol id "curve25519-sha256@libssh.org", so called
because it's over the prime field of order 2^255 - 19.
Arithmetic in this curve is done using the Montgomery representation,
rather than the Weierstrass representation. So 'struct ec_curve' has
grown a discriminant field and a union of subtypes.
The only reason those couldn't be replaced with a call to the
centralised find_pubkey_alg is because that function takes a zero-
terminated string and instead we had a (length,pointer) string. Easily
fixed; there's now a find_pubkey_alg_len(), and we call that.
This also fixes a string-matching bug in which the sense of memcmp was
reversed by mistake for ECDSA keys!
Several of the functions in ssh2_signkey, and one or two SSH-1 key
functions too, were still taking assorted non-const buffer parameters
that had never been properly constified. Sort them all out.
This is better than listing all the algorithm names in yet another
place that will then need updating when a new key format is added.
However, that also means I need to find a new place to put the
'npieces' value I was previously setting up differently per key type;
since that's a fundamental property of the key format, I've moved it
to a constant field in the ssh_signkey structure, and filled that
field in for all the existing key types with the values from the
replaced code in openssh_read_new().
It's all very well for these two different formats to share a type
code as long as we're only loading them and not saving, but as soon as
we need to save one or the other, we'll need different type codes
after all.
This commit introduces the openssh_new_write() function, but for the
moment, it always returns failure.
This isn't the same as the standard bcrypt; it's OpenSSH's
modification that they use for their new-style key format.
In order to implement this, I've broken up blowfish_setkey() into two
subfunctions, and provided one of them with an extra optional salt
parameter, which is NULL in ordinary Blowfish but used by bcrypt.
Also, I've exposed some of sshblowf.c's internal machinery for the new
sshbcrypt.c to use.
SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REQUEST_OLD and SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REQUEST were
correctly _defined_ as different numbers, but the comments to the
right containing the hex representations of their values were
accidentally the same.
This causes the initial length field of the SSH-2 binary packet to be
unencrypted (with the knock-on effect that now the packet length not
including MAC must be congruent to 4 rather than 0 mod the cipher
block size), and then the MAC is applied over the unencrypted length
field and encrypted ciphertext (prefixed by the sequence number as
usual). At the cost of exposing some information about the packet
lengths to an attacker (but rarely anything they couldn't have
inferred from the TCP headers anyway), this closes down any
possibility of a MITM using the client as a decryption oracle, unless
they can _first_ fake a correct MAC.
ETM mode is enabled by means of selecting a different MAC identifier,
all the current ones of which are constructed by appending
"-etm@openssh.com" to the name of a MAC that already existed.
We currently prefer the original SSH-2 binary packet protocol (i.e. we
list all the ETM-mode MACs last in our KEXINIT), on the grounds that
it's better tested and more analysed, so at the moment the new mode is
only activated if a server refuses to speak anything else.
PuTTY now uses the updated version of Diffie-Hellman group exchange,
except for a few old OpenSSH versions which Darren Tucker reports only
support the old version.
FIXME: this needs further work because the Bugs config panel has now
overflowed.
