On Thu, 13 Jul 2023 09:58:34 GMT, Ferenc Rakoczi <d...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> src/java.base/share/classes/sun/security/rsa/RSASignature.java line 231: >> >>> 229: RSAUtil.decodeSignature(digestOID, >>> unpadded)); >>> 230: } >>> 231: } >> >> I understand where the fallback code came from. As the padding code is >> exactly the same as engineSign(), the risk may be minimal. With the >> fallback code, the security concern (time-constant) we cared about will come >> back. Did you run into testing failure without the fallback doe? > > Instead of falling back to unpad()/decodeSignature() I suggest to try a new > version of encodeSignature() (in addition to trying the current version of > it) in which you omit putting the null for params into the DER encoding and > compare the decrypted message with that, too. Accept if any of the two > encodings matches the decrypted one, reject otherwise. This can be done in > constant time, although it is not necessary to be constant time as the time > of doing it does not depend on any secret. I'm OK with @ferakocz's suggestion, by avoiding the use of null params. ------------- PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14839#discussion_r1267141110
