// Copyright 2018 The Go Authors. All rights reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style // license that can be found in the LICENSE file. // Package sign signs small messages using public-key cryptography. // // Sign uses Ed25519 to sign messages. The length of messages is not hidden. // Messages should be small because: // 1. The whole message needs to be held in memory to be processed. // 2. Using large messages pressures implementations on small machines to process // plaintext without verifying the signature. This is very dangerous, and this API // discourages it, but a protocol that uses excessive message sizes might present // some implementations with no other choice. // 3. Performance may be improved by working with messages that fit into data caches. // Thus large amounts of data should be chunked so that each message is small. // // This package is not interoperable with the current release of NaCl // (https://nacl.cr.yp.to/sign.html), which does not support Ed25519 yet. However, // it is compatible with the NaCl fork libsodium (https://www.libsodium.org), as well // as TweetNaCl (https://tweetnacl.cr.yp.to/). package sign import ( "io" "golang.org/x/crypto/ed25519" ) // Overhead is the number of bytes of overhead when signing a message. const Overhead = 64 // GenerateKey generates a new public/private key pair suitable for use with // Sign and Open. func GenerateKey(rand io.Reader) (publicKey *[32]byte, privateKey *[64]byte, err error) { pub, priv, err := ed25519.GenerateKey(rand) if err != nil { return nil, nil, err } publicKey, privateKey = new([32]byte), new([64]byte) copy((*publicKey)[:], pub) copy((*privateKey)[:], priv) return publicKey, privateKey, nil } // Sign appends a signed copy of message to out, which will be Overhead bytes // longer than the original and must not overlap it. func Sign(out, message []byte, privateKey *[64]byte) []byte { sig := ed25519.Sign(ed25519.PrivateKey((*privateKey)[:]), message) ret, out := sliceForAppend(out, Overhead+len(message)) copy(out, sig) copy(out[Overhead:], message) return ret } // Open verifies a signed message produced by Sign and appends the message to // out, which must not overlap the signed message. The output will be Overhead // bytes smaller than the signed message. func Open(out, signedMessage []byte, publicKey *[32]byte) ([]byte, bool) { if len(signedMessage) < Overhead { return nil, false } if !ed25519.Verify(ed25519.PublicKey((*publicKey)[:]), signedMessage[Overhead:], signedMessage[:Overhead]) { return nil, false } ret, out := sliceForAppend(out, len(signedMessage)-Overhead) copy(out, signedMessage[Overhead:]) return ret, true } // sliceForAppend takes a slice and a requested number of bytes. It returns a // slice with the contents of the given slice followed by that many bytes and a // second slice that aliases into it and contains only the extra bytes. If the // original slice has sufficient capacity then no allocation is performed. func sliceForAppend(in []byte, n int) (head, tail []byte) { if total := len(in) + n; cap(in) >= total { head = in[:total] } else { head = make([]byte, total) copy(head, in) } tail = head[len(in):] return }