Re: [JDBC] [HACKERS] Channel binding support for SCRAM-SHA-256 - Mailing list pgsql-jdbc

On 20/06/17 06:11, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 3:40 PM, Michael Paquier
> <michael.paquier@gmail.com> wrote:
>> As far as I can see, there are a couple of things that I still need to
>> work on to make people happy:
>> - Rework the generic APIs for TLS finish and endpoint so as any
>> implementation can use channel binding without inducing any extra code
>> footprint to be-secure.c and fe-secure.c.
>> - Implement endpoint, as Alvaro is saying for JDBC that would be nicer.
>> - Have a couple of tests for channel binding to allow people to test
>> the feature easily. Those will be in src/test/ssl/. It would be nice
>> as well to be able to enforce the channel binding type on libpq-side,
>> which is useful at least for testing. So we are going to need an
>> environment variable for this purpose, and a connection parameter.
> Okay, here we go. Attached is a set of four patches:
> - 0001 is some refactoring for the SSL tests so as other test suite in
> src/test/ssl can take advantage of the connection routines. There is
> nothing fancy here.
> - 0002 is the implementation of tls-unique as channel binding. This
> has been largely reworked since last submission, I have found on the
> way a couple of bugs and some correctness issues.
> - 0003 is a patch to add as connection parameters saslname and
> saslchannelbinding. With support of more SASL mechanisms (PG10 has
> SCRAM-SHA-256, I am adding SCRAM-SHA-256-PLUS here), saslname can be
> used to enforce on the client-side the value of the SASL mechanism
> chosen. saslchannelbinding does the same for the channel binding name.
> This is very useful for testing, and a set of tests are added in
> src/test/ssl/ for tls-unique and the SASL mechanisms. The tests cover
> many scenarios, like downgrade attacks for example.
> - 0004 is the implementation of tls-server-end-point, as Alvaro has
> asked. Per RFC 5929, the binding data needs to be a hash of the server
> certificate. If the signature algorithm of the certificate is MD5 or
> SHA-1, then SHA-256 is used. Other signature algos like SHA-384 or 512
> are used to hash the data. The hashed data is then encoded in base64
> and sent to the server for verification. Tests using saslchannelname
> have been added as well. It took me a while to find out that
> OBJ_find_sigid_algs(X509_get_signature_nid(X509*)) needs to be used to
> find out the algorithm of a certificate with OpenSSL.
>
> With the tests directly in the patch, things are easy to run. WIth
> PG10 stabilization work, of course I don't expect much feedback :)
> But this set of patches looks like the direction we want to go so as
> JDBC and libpq users can take advantage of channel binding with SCRAM.

     This is awesome, Michael.

     In the coming weeks, and once my PR for pgjdbc has been added, I
will work towards another patch to implement channel binding. Should be
reasonably easy now, thanks to this.

     Appreciated!

     Álvaro



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Álvaro Hernández Tortosa


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