git/gpg-interface.h, branch gitk-resize-error

ssh signing: make verify-commit consider key lifetime

2021-12-09T21:38:04Z

If valid-before/after dates are configured for this signatures key in the allowedSigners file then the verification should check if the key was valid at the time the commit was made. This allows for graceful key rollover and revoking keys without invalidating all previous commits. This feature needs openssh > 8.8. Older ssh-keygen versions will simply ignore this flag and use the current time. Strictly speaking this feature is available in 8.7, but since 8.7 has a bug that makes it unusable in another needed call we require 8.8. Timestamp information is present on most invocations of check_signature. However signer ident is not. We will need the signer email / name to be able to implement "Trust on first use" functionality later. Since the payload contains all necessary information we can parse it from there. The caller only needs to provide us some info about the payload by setting payload_type in the signature_check struct. - Add payload_type field & enum and payload_timestamp to struct signature_check - Populate the timestamp when not already set if we know about the payload type - Pass -Overify-time={payload_timestamp} in the users timezone to all ssh-keygen verification calls - Set the payload type when verifying commits - Add tests for expired, not yet valid and keys having a commit date outside of key validity as well as within Signed-off-by: Fabian Stelzer Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

ssh signing: use sigc struct to pass payload

2021-12-09T21:38:04Z

To be able to extend the payload metadata with things like its creation timestamp or the creators ident we remove the payload parameters to check_signature() and use the already existing sigc->payload field instead, only adding the length field to the struct. This also allows us to get rid of the xmemdupz() calls in the verify functions. Since sigc is now used to input data as well as output the result move it to the front of the function list. - Add payload_length to struct signature_check - Populate sigc.payload/payload_len on all call sites - Remove payload parameters to check_signature() - Remove payload parameters to internal verify_* functions and use sigc instead - Remove xmemdupz() used for verbose output since payload is now already populated. Signed-off-by: Fabian Stelzer Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

ssh signing: provide a textual signing_key_id

2021-09-10T21:15:52Z

For ssh the user.signingkey can be a filename/path or even a literal ssh pubkey. In push certs and textual output we prefer the ssh fingerprint instead. Signed-off-by: Fabian Stelzer Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

ssh signing: preliminary refactoring and clean-up

2021-09-10T21:15:51Z

Openssh v8.2p1 added some new options to ssh-keygen for signature creation and verification. These allow us to use ssh keys for git signatures easily. In our corporate environment we use PIV x509 Certs on Yubikeys for email signing/encryption and ssh keys which I think is quite common (at least for the email part). This way we can establish the correct trust for the SSH Keys without setting up a separate GPG Infrastructure (which is still quite painful for users) or implementing x509 signing support for git (which lacks good forwarding mechanisms). Using ssh agent forwarding makes this feature easily usable in todays development environments where code is often checked out in remote VMs / containers. In such a setup the keyring & revocationKeyring can be centrally generated from the x509 CA information and distributed to the users. To be able to implement new signing formats this commit: - makes the sigc structure more generic by renaming "gpg_output" to "output" - introduces function pointers in the gpg_format structure to call format specific signing and verification functions - moves format detection from verify_signed_buffer into the check_signature api function and calls the format specific verify - renames and wraps sign_buffer to handle format specific signing logic as well Signed-off-by: Fabian Stelzer Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

gpg-interface: improve interface for parsing tags

2021-02-11T07:35:42Z

We have a function which parses a buffer with a signature at the end, parse_signature, and this function is used for signed tags. However, we'll need to store values for multiple algorithms, and we'll do this by using a header for the non-default algorithm. Adjust the parse_signature interface to store the parsed data in two strbufs and turn the existing function into parse_signed_buffer. The latter is still used in places where we know we always have a signed buffer, such as push certs. Adjust all the callers to deal with this new interface. Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

gpg-interface: prefer check_signature() for GPG verification

2020-03-15T16:46:28Z

This commit refactors the use of verify_signed_buffer() outside of gpg-interface.c to use check_signature() instead. It also turns verify_signed_buffer() into a file-local function since it's now only invoked internally by check_signature(). There were previously two globally scoped functions used in different parts of Git to perform GPG signature verification: verify_signed_buffer() and check_signature(). Now only check_signature() is used. The verify_signed_buffer() function doesn't guard against duplicate signatures as described by Michał Górny [1]. Instead it only ensures a non-erroneous exit code from GPG and the presence of at least one GOODSIG status field. This stands in contrast with check_signature() that returns an error if more than one signature is encountered. The lower degree of verification makes the use of verify_signed_buffer() problematic if callers don't parse and validate the various parts of the GPG status message themselves. And processing these messages seems like a task that should be reserved to gpg-interface.c with the function check_signature(). Furthermore, the use of verify_signed_buffer() makes it difficult to introduce new functionality that relies on the content of the GPG status lines. Now all operations that does signature verification share a single entry point to gpg-interface.c. This makes it easier to propagate changed or additional functionality in GPG signature verification to all parts of Git, without having odd edge-cases that don't perform the same degree of verification. [1] https://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/articles/attack-on-git-signature-verification.html Signed-off-by: Hans Jerry Illikainen Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Merge branch 'hi/gpg-use-check-signature'

2020-03-05T18:43:05Z

"git merge signed-tag" while lacking the public key started to say "No signature", which was utterly wrong. This regression has been reverted. * hi/gpg-use-check-signature: Revert "gpg-interface: prefer check_signature() for GPG verification"

Revert "gpg-interface: prefer check_signature() for GPG verification"

2020-02-28T17:43:17Z

This reverts commit 72b006f4bfd30b7c5037c163efaf279ab65bea9c, which breaks the end-user experience when merging a signed tag without having the public key. We should report "can't check because we have no public key", but the code with this change claimed that there was no signature.

Merge branch 'hi/gpg-mintrustlevel'

2020-01-30T22:17:08Z

gpg.minTrustLevel configuration variable has been introduced to tell various signature verification codepaths the required minimum trust level. * hi/gpg-mintrustlevel: gpg-interface: add minTrustLevel as a configuration option

gpg-interface: add minTrustLevel as a configuration option

2020-01-15T22:06:06Z

Previously, signature verification for merge and pull operations checked if the key had a trust-level of either TRUST_NEVER or TRUST_UNDEFINED in verify_merge_signature(). If that was the case, the process die()d. The other code paths that did signature verification relied entirely on the return code from check_commit_signature(). And signatures made with a good key, irregardless of its trust level, was considered valid by check_commit_signature(). This difference in behavior might induce users to erroneously assume that the trust level of a key in their keyring is always considered by Git, even for operations where it is not (e.g. during a verify-commit or verify-tag). The way it worked was by gpg-interface.c storing the result from the key/signature status *and* the lowest-two trust levels in the `result` member of the signature_check structure (the last of these status lines that were encountered got written to `result`). These are documented in GPG under the subsection `General status codes` and `Key related`, respectively [1]. The GPG documentation says the following on the TRUST_ status codes [1]: """ These are several similar status codes: - TRUST_UNDEFINED - TRUST_NEVER - TRUST_MARGINAL [0 []] - TRUST_FULLY [0 []] - TRUST_ULTIMATE [0 []] For good signatures one of these status lines are emitted to indicate the validity of the key used to create the signature. The error token values are currently only emitted by gpgsm. """ My interpretation is that the trust level is conceptionally different from the validity of the key and/or signature. That seems to also have been the assumption of the old code in check_signature() where a result of 'G' (as in GOODSIG) and 'U' (as in TRUST_NEVER or TRUST_UNDEFINED) were both considered a success. The two cases where a result of 'U' had special meaning were in verify_merge_signature() (where this caused git to die()) and in format_commit_one() (where it affected the output of the %G? format specifier). I think it makes sense to refactor the processing of TRUST_ status lines such that users can configure a minimum trust level that is enforced globally, rather than have individual parts of git (e.g. merge) do it themselves (except for a grace period with backward compatibility). I also think it makes sense to not store the trust level in the same struct member as the key/signature status. While the presence of a TRUST_ status code does imply that the signature is good (see the first paragraph in the included snippet above), as far as I can tell, the order of the status lines from GPG isn't well-defined; thus it would seem plausible that the trust level could be overwritten with the key/signature status if they were stored in the same member of the signature_check structure. This patch introduces a new configuration option: gpg.minTrustLevel. It consolidates trust-level verification to gpg-interface.c and adds a new `trust_level` member to the signature_check structure. Backward-compatibility is maintained by introducing a special case in verify_merge_signature() such that if no user-configurable gpg.minTrustLevel is set, then the old behavior of rejecting TRUST_UNDEFINED and TRUST_NEVER is enforced. If, on the other hand, gpg.minTrustLevel is set, then that value overrides the old behavior. Similarly, the %G? format specifier will continue show 'U' for signatures made with a key that has a trust level of TRUST_UNDEFINED or TRUST_NEVER, even though the 'U' character no longer exist in the `result` member of the signature_check structure. A new format specifier, %GT, is also introduced for users that want to show all possible trust levels for a signature. Another approach would have been to simply drop the trust-level requirement in verify_merge_signature(). This would also have made the behavior consistent with other parts of git that perform signature verification. However, requiring a minimum trust level for signing keys does seem to have a real-world use-case. For example, the build system used by the Qubes OS project currently parses the raw output from verify-tag in order to assert a minimum trust level for keys used to sign git tags [2]. [1] https://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=gnupg.git;a=blob;f=doc/doc/DETAILS;h=bd00006e933ac56719b1edd2478ecd79273eae72;hb=refs/heads/master [2] https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-builder/blob/9674c1991deef45b1a1b1c71fddfab14ba50dccf/scripts/verify-git-tag#L43 Signed-off-by: Hans Jerry Illikainen Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano