* [Bitcoin-development] Positive and negative feedback on certificate validation errors
@ 2014-03-01 6:26 Jeremy Spilman
2014-03-01 7:26 ` Wladimir
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0 siblings, 3 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: Jeremy Spilman @ 2014-03-01 6:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: bitcoin-development
We currently have subtle positive feedback of a signed payment request in
the form of the green background. Unsigned requests simply show up without
the green background, as well as requests which provide a certificate but
have a missing or invalid signature.
There's a open bug (#3628) and pull request (#3684) to provide negative
feedback (yellow background) for a missing or invalid signature, but it
seems like there's some debate on whether bitcoind should do that...
If an attacker can avoid the negative feedback by just stripping the
signature and setting pki_type to none, then arguably there's no security
benefit by singling out badly signed payment requests from unsigned
payment requests.
So perhaps the root problem is that the positive feedback (green
background) is not strong enough to make its absence highly conspicuous to
the end user.
As an aside, how could we go about implementing the equivalent of HTTP
Strict Transport Security for payment protocol to prevent this trivial
signature stripping attack? Is this a possible extension field merchants
are interested in?
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 10+ messages in thread* Re: [Bitcoin-development] Positive and negative feedback on certificate validation errors 2014-03-01 6:26 [Bitcoin-development] Positive and negative feedback on certificate validation errors Jeremy Spilman @ 2014-03-01 7:26 ` Wladimir 2014-03-01 7:50 ` Jeremy Spilman 2014-03-02 7:52 ` [Bitcoin-development] Payment Protocol Hash Comments Jeremy Spilman 2014-03-02 18:18 ` [Bitcoin-development] Positive and negative feedback on certificate validation errors Troy Benjegerdes 2 siblings, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread From: Wladimir @ 2014-03-01 7:26 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Jeremy Spilman; +Cc: bitcoin-development [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 2533 bytes --] On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 7:26 AM, Jeremy Spilman <jeremy@taplink•co> wrote: > There's a open bug (#3628) and pull request (#3684) to provide negative > feedback (yellow background) for a missing or invalid signature, but it > seems like there's some debate on whether bitcoind should do that... > The consensus there is to treat invalid and unsigned payment requests the same (apart from debug error logging). After all, the cost to the attacker to remove the signature or corrupt it is exactly the same. I do recommend testing that pull request (#3684) to see if it improves payment request reporting, and provide testing reports or suggestions in the github comments. I've been very busy the last few weeks with integrating and testing other pre-0.9 changes so I have been unable to look at the visual side of payment request stuff much. We could use some help there. If an attacker can avoid the negative feedback by just stripping the > signature and setting pki_type to none, then arguably there's no security > benefit by singling out badly signed payment requests from unsigned > payment requests. > Exactly. > So perhaps the root problem is that the positive feedback (green > background) is not strong enough to make its absence highly conspicuous to > the end user. > Well, ideas to make the difference more conspicuous are welcome. The green background is just to make a basic distinction. If it involves any imagery or graphics we do need contributions (with the appropriate MIT license), no one of us is an artist. > As an aside, how could we go about implementing the equivalent of HTTP > Strict Transport Security for payment protocol to prevent this trivial > signature stripping attack? Is this a possible extension field merchants > are interested in? > Such a thing would be interesting for a future BIP standard. I see one problem here: for an unsigned payment request there isn't really an "origin". Browser URI handlers don't send the referrer either. This rules out adding a field to the Bitcoin URI 'requests from us must be signed from now on' (there's no us). The server that serves the payment requests *could* serve an HSTS-like header 'only accept signed payment requests from us from now on'. The client needs to remember this for this server. Then if someone has compromised that server (or hijacked DNS) to serve fake and unsigned payment requests, the client can block these. Neither scenario will help in the case in which the server serving the Bitcoin URIs is compromised. Wladimir [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 3581 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 10+ messages in thread
* Re: [Bitcoin-development] Positive and negative feedback on certificate validation errors 2014-03-01 7:26 ` Wladimir @ 2014-03-01 7:50 ` Jeremy Spilman 2014-03-02 10:37 ` Mike Hearn 0 siblings, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread From: Jeremy Spilman @ 2014-03-01 7:50 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Wladimir; +Cc: bitcoin-development [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 754 bytes --] On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 23:26:57 -0800, Wladimir <laanwj@gmail•com> wrote: > Such a thing would be interesting for a future BIP standard. I see one > problem here: for an unsigned payment request there isn't really an > "origin". >Browser URI handlers don't send the referrer either. Yeah, good point. If you have a cert, we have the CN from the cert, which becomes the string displayed as 'Pay To' and alternatively 'Merchant'. But if there's no cert then all you have is memo. So the best way to differentiate signed requests is by prominently displaying that Merchant string. Really the green part should just be the 'Pay To' line, the rest is content. If it showed a BLANK 'Pay To' that would make the lack of certificate highly apparent. [-- Attachment #2.1: Type: text/html, Size: 1091 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 10+ messages in thread
* Re: [Bitcoin-development] Positive and negative feedback on certificate validation errors 2014-03-01 7:50 ` Jeremy Spilman @ 2014-03-02 10:37 ` Mike Hearn 0 siblings, 0 replies; 10+ messages in thread From: Mike Hearn @ 2014-03-02 10:37 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Jeremy Spilman; +Cc: bitcoin-development [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1687 bytes --] I'm hoping I can convince Saivann to do a bit of graphics work for this at some point :-) Something like a green stamp that appears (like a watermark) in the background, might be good. On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 8:50 AM, Jeremy Spilman <jeremy@taplink•co> wrote: > On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 23:26:57 -0800, Wladimir <laanwj@gmail•com> wrote: > > Such a thing would be interesting for a future BIP standard. I see one > problem here: for an unsigned payment request there isn't really an > "origin". Browser URI handlers don't send the referrer either. > > > Yeah, good point. If you have a cert, we have the CN from the cert, which > becomes the string displayed as 'Pay To' and alternatively 'Merchant'. > > But if there's no cert then all you have is memo. > > So the best way to differentiate signed requests is by prominently > displaying that Merchant string. Really the green part should just be the > 'Pay To' line, the rest is content. If it showed a BLANK 'Pay To' that > would make the lack of certificate highly apparent. > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Flow-based real-time traffic analytics software. Cisco certified tool. > Monitor traffic, SLAs, QoS, Medianet, WAAS etc. with NetFlow Analyzer > Customize your own dashboards, set traffic alerts and generate reports. > Network behavioral analysis & security monitoring. All-in-one tool. > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=126839071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Bitcoin-development mailing list > Bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development > > [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 2648 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 10+ messages in thread
* [Bitcoin-development] Payment Protocol Hash Comments 2014-03-01 6:26 [Bitcoin-development] Positive and negative feedback on certificate validation errors Jeremy Spilman 2014-03-01 7:26 ` Wladimir @ 2014-03-02 7:52 ` Jeremy Spilman 2014-03-02 8:44 ` Mike Hearn 2014-03-02 18:18 ` [Bitcoin-development] Positive and negative feedback on certificate validation errors Troy Benjegerdes 2 siblings, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread From: Jeremy Spilman @ 2014-03-02 7:52 UTC (permalink / raw) To: bitcoin-development From BIP70: If pki_type is "x509+sha256", then the Payment message is hashed using the SHA256 algorithm to produce the message digest that is signed. If pki_type is "x509+sha1", then the SHA1 algorithm is used. A couple minor comments; - I think it meant to say the field to be hashed is 'PaymentRequest' not 'Payment' message -- probably got renamed at some point and this is an old reference calling it by its original name. - Could be a bit more explicit about the hashing, e.g. 'copy the PaymentRequest, set the signature field to the empty string, serialize to a byte[] and hash. - SHA1 is retiring, any particular reason to even have it in there at all? - Should there any way for the end-user to see details like the pki_type and the certificate chain, like browser do? Thanks, Jeremy ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 10+ messages in thread
* Re: [Bitcoin-development] Payment Protocol Hash Comments 2014-03-02 7:52 ` [Bitcoin-development] Payment Protocol Hash Comments Jeremy Spilman @ 2014-03-02 8:44 ` Mike Hearn 2014-03-02 8:52 ` Drak 0 siblings, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread From: Mike Hearn @ 2014-03-02 8:44 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Jeremy Spilman; +Cc: Bitcoin Dev [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1658 bytes --] SHA-1 support is there for PHP developers. Apparently it can't do SHA-2. On 2 Mar 2014 08:53, "Jeremy Spilman" <jeremy@taplink•co> wrote: > From BIP70: > > If pki_type is "x509+sha256", then the Payment message is hashed using > the > SHA256 algorithm to produce the message digest that is signed. If > pki_type > is "x509+sha1", then the SHA1 algorithm is used. > > A couple minor comments; > > - I think it meant to say the field to be hashed is 'PaymentRequest' not > 'Payment' message -- probably got renamed at some point and this is an old > reference calling it by its original name. > > - Could be a bit more explicit about the hashing, e.g. 'copy the > PaymentRequest, set the signature field to the empty string, serialize to > a byte[] and hash. > > - SHA1 is retiring, any particular reason to even have it in there at > all? > > - Should there any way for the end-user to see details like the pki_type > and the certificate chain, like browser do? > > > Thanks, > Jeremy > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Flow-based real-time traffic analytics software. Cisco certified tool. > Monitor traffic, SLAs, QoS, Medianet, WAAS etc. with NetFlow Analyzer > Customize your own dashboards, set traffic alerts and generate reports. > Network behavioral analysis & security monitoring. All-in-one tool. > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=126839071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Bitcoin-development mailing list > Bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development > [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 2350 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 10+ messages in thread
* Re: [Bitcoin-development] Payment Protocol Hash Comments 2014-03-02 8:44 ` Mike Hearn @ 2014-03-02 8:52 ` Drak 2014-03-02 10:39 ` Mike Hearn 0 siblings, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread From: Drak @ 2014-03-02 8:52 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Mike Hearn; +Cc: Bitcoin Dev [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 2585 bytes --] Not true, PHP does support sha2 http://php.net/manual/en/mhash.constants.php http://php.net/manual/en/function.hash-algos.php#refsect1-function.hash-algos-examples On 2 Mar 2014 08:44, "Mike Hearn" <mike@plan99•net> wrote: > SHA-1 support is there for PHP developers. Apparently it can't do SHA-2. > On 2 Mar 2014 08:53, "Jeremy Spilman" <jeremy@taplink•co> wrote: > >> From BIP70: >> >> If pki_type is "x509+sha256", then the Payment message is hashed using >> the >> SHA256 algorithm to produce the message digest that is signed. If >> pki_type >> is "x509+sha1", then the SHA1 algorithm is used. >> >> A couple minor comments; >> >> - I think it meant to say the field to be hashed is 'PaymentRequest' not >> 'Payment' message -- probably got renamed at some point and this is an old >> reference calling it by its original name. >> >> - Could be a bit more explicit about the hashing, e.g. 'copy the >> PaymentRequest, set the signature field to the empty string, serialize to >> a byte[] and hash. >> >> - SHA1 is retiring, any particular reason to even have it in there at >> all? >> >> - Should there any way for the end-user to see details like the pki_type >> and the certificate chain, like browser do? >> >> >> Thanks, >> Jeremy >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Flow-based real-time traffic analytics software. Cisco certified tool. >> Monitor traffic, SLAs, QoS, Medianet, WAAS etc. with NetFlow Analyzer >> Customize your own dashboards, set traffic alerts and generate reports. >> Network behavioral analysis & security monitoring. All-in-one tool. >> >> http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=126839071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk >> _______________________________________________ >> Bitcoin-development mailing list >> Bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Flow-based real-time traffic analytics software. Cisco certified tool. > Monitor traffic, SLAs, QoS, Medianet, WAAS etc. with NetFlow Analyzer > Customize your own dashboards, set traffic alerts and generate reports. > Network behavioral analysis & security monitoring. All-in-one tool. > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=126839071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Bitcoin-development mailing list > Bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development > > [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 3993 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 10+ messages in thread
* Re: [Bitcoin-development] Payment Protocol Hash Comments 2014-03-02 8:52 ` Drak @ 2014-03-02 10:39 ` Mike Hearn 2014-03-03 12:39 ` Drak 0 siblings, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread From: Mike Hearn @ 2014-03-02 10:39 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Drak; +Cc: Bitcoin Dev [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 3233 bytes --] I'm just repeating the rationale Gavin gave me for adding this to the spec last year when he was implementing it. Perhaps it only applied to some versions of PHP or something like that. Jeremy, good comments. A pull request to fix those would be good. One issue I seem looming on the horizon is that we'll need a version of the payment protocol document that's living. Trying to reverse engineer the current spec by manually reading all the BIPs and layering them in your head is a non starter. On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Drak <drak@zikula•org> wrote: > Not true, PHP does support sha2 > > http://php.net/manual/en/mhash.constants.php > > http://php.net/manual/en/function.hash-algos.php#refsect1-function.hash-algos-examples > On 2 Mar 2014 08:44, "Mike Hearn" <mike@plan99•net> wrote: > >> SHA-1 support is there for PHP developers. Apparently it can't do SHA-2. >> On 2 Mar 2014 08:53, "Jeremy Spilman" <jeremy@taplink•co> wrote: >> >>> From BIP70: >>> >>> If pki_type is "x509+sha256", then the Payment message is hashed using >>> the >>> SHA256 algorithm to produce the message digest that is signed. If >>> pki_type >>> is "x509+sha1", then the SHA1 algorithm is used. >>> >>> A couple minor comments; >>> >>> - I think it meant to say the field to be hashed is 'PaymentRequest' >>> not >>> 'Payment' message -- probably got renamed at some point and this is an >>> old >>> reference calling it by its original name. >>> >>> - Could be a bit more explicit about the hashing, e.g. 'copy the >>> PaymentRequest, set the signature field to the empty string, serialize to >>> a byte[] and hash. >>> >>> - SHA1 is retiring, any particular reason to even have it in there at >>> all? >>> >>> - Should there any way for the end-user to see details like the >>> pki_type >>> and the certificate chain, like browser do? >>> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Jeremy >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Flow-based real-time traffic analytics software. Cisco certified tool. >>> Monitor traffic, SLAs, QoS, Medianet, WAAS etc. with NetFlow Analyzer >>> Customize your own dashboards, set traffic alerts and generate reports. >>> Network behavioral analysis & security monitoring. All-in-one tool. >>> >>> http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=126839071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Bitcoin-development mailing list >>> Bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development >>> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Flow-based real-time traffic analytics software. Cisco certified tool. >> Monitor traffic, SLAs, QoS, Medianet, WAAS etc. with NetFlow Analyzer >> Customize your own dashboards, set traffic alerts and generate reports. >> Network behavioral analysis & security monitoring. All-in-one tool. >> >> http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=126839071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk >> _______________________________________________ >> Bitcoin-development mailing list >> Bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development >> >> [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 5064 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 10+ messages in thread
* Re: [Bitcoin-development] Payment Protocol Hash Comments 2014-03-02 10:39 ` Mike Hearn @ 2014-03-03 12:39 ` Drak 0 siblings, 0 replies; 10+ messages in thread From: Drak @ 2014-03-03 12:39 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Mike Hearn; +Cc: Bitcoin Dev [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 631 bytes --] On 2 March 2014 10:39, Mike Hearn <mike@plan99•net> wrote: > I'm just repeating the rationale Gavin gave me for adding this to the spec > last year when he was implementing it. Perhaps it only applied to some > versions of PHP or something like that. > OK, but certainly now, SHA-2 is available as standard in PHP and has been since PHP 5.1.2 as part of the hash() function. You can see from usage stats that means practically every installation http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/pl-php/5/all is PHP 5.2 and above. Unless there is some other compelling reason, I would suggest removing SHA-1 from the specification. Drak [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 1141 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 10+ messages in thread
* Re: [Bitcoin-development] Positive and negative feedback on certificate validation errors 2014-03-01 6:26 [Bitcoin-development] Positive and negative feedback on certificate validation errors Jeremy Spilman 2014-03-01 7:26 ` Wladimir 2014-03-02 7:52 ` [Bitcoin-development] Payment Protocol Hash Comments Jeremy Spilman @ 2014-03-02 18:18 ` Troy Benjegerdes 2 siblings, 0 replies; 10+ messages in thread From: Troy Benjegerdes @ 2014-03-02 18:18 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Jeremy Spilman; +Cc: bitcoin-development On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 10:26:39PM -0800, Jeremy Spilman wrote: > We currently have subtle positive feedback of a signed payment request in > the form of the green background. Unsigned requests simply show up without > the green background, as well as requests which provide a certificate but > have a missing or invalid signature. Are we talking a third-party 'root certificate'? I don't quite see why a cryptographic currency that has the most widely deployed ECDSA public/private key infrastructure ever needs to use external certificates. That seems like a significant reduction in security to pretend that a 'signed' certificate is any good when it's pretty easy to buy a compromised cert, or just hack the server its on. If it's 'signed' by the ECDSA private key that you are sending the payment to, by all means, make it bright green. I mean if you want to make it expensive for small businesses to take secure payments, why don't you add a native 'signing fee' extension and have a (more) transparent market for the price of perceived security, or at least a compile time option so i can turn this nonsense off for my customers. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Troy Benjegerdes 'da hozer' hozer@hozed•org 7 elements earth::water::air::fire::mind::spirit::soul grid.coop Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel, nor try buy a hacker who makes money by the megahash ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 10+ messages in thread
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