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crypto/tls: Unnecessary check whether a point is on a curve #20496

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aead opened this issue May 25, 2017 · 1 comment
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crypto/tls: Unnecessary check whether a point is on a curve #20496

aead opened this issue May 25, 2017 · 1 comment

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aead commented May 25, 2017

What version of Go are you using (go version)?

go version go1.8.1 linux/amd64

What operating system and processor architecture are you using (go env)?

GOARCH="amd64"
GOBIN=""
GOEXE=""
GOHOSTARCH="amd64"
GOHOSTOS="linux"
GOOS="linux"
GOPATH="/home/andreas/go"
GORACE=""
GOROOT="/usr/local/go"
GOTOOLDIR="/usr/local/go/pkg/tool/linux_amd64"
GCCGO="gccgo"
CC="gcc"
GOGCCFLAGS="-fPIC -m64 -pthread -fmessage-length=0 -fdebug-prefix-map=/tmp/go-build282450971=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches"
CXX="g++"
CGO_ENABLED="1"
PKG_CONFIG="pkg-config"
CGO_CFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_CPPFLAGS=""
CGO_CXXFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_FFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_LDFLAGS="-g -O2"

What did you do?

I looked at processServerKeyExchange and processClientKeyExchange while investigating #20482.

It's actually not necessary to check explicitly whether the (x,y) coordinate is on the curve because the Unmarshal function does this anyway and the returned error (on failure) is the same.

Of course it's valid to check this again and maybe it's worth to do so for explicitness.
On the other side omitting the (unnecessary) IsOnCurve check would speed-up client/server key-exchange processing. A comment could make it clear that Unmarshal checks the point anyway - maybe @agl should decide about this?

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CL https://golang.org/cl/44311 mentions this issue.

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FiloSottile pushed a commit to FiloSottile/go that referenced this issue Oct 12, 2018
The processClientKeyExchange and processServerKeyExchange functions unmarshal an
encoded EC point and explicitly check whether the point is on the curve. The explicit
check can be omitted because elliptic.Unmarshal fails if the point is not on the curve
and the returned error would always be the same.

Fixes golang#20496

Change-Id: I5231a655eace79acee2737dd036a0c255ed42dbb
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/44311
Reviewed-by: Adam Langley <agl@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Avelino <t@avelino.xxx>
Run-TryBot: Adam Langley <agl@golang.org>
FiloSottile pushed a commit to FiloSottile/go that referenced this issue Oct 12, 2018
The processClientKeyExchange and processServerKeyExchange functions unmarshal an
encoded EC point and explicitly check whether the point is on the curve. The explicit
check can be omitted because elliptic.Unmarshal fails if the point is not on the curve
and the returned error would always be the same.

Fixes golang#20496

Change-Id: I5231a655eace79acee2737dd036a0c255ed42dbb
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/44311
Reviewed-by: Adam Langley <agl@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Avelino <t@avelino.xxx>
Run-TryBot: Adam Langley <agl@golang.org>
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