From dadf4d53abd8be13f59fb09820712d74ce8f89a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vlad Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 15:45:00 +0100 Subject: whisper: mailserver no longer supports the signature vaidation --- whisper/mailserver/mailserver.go | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'whisper') diff --git a/whisper/mailserver/mailserver.go b/whisper/mailserver/mailserver.go index 6555fd5c0..a889c2bd2 100644 --- a/whisper/mailserver/mailserver.go +++ b/whisper/mailserver/mailserver.go @@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ package mailserver import ( - "bytes" "encoding/binary" "fmt" @@ -175,7 +174,10 @@ func (s *WMailServer) validateRequest(peerID []byte, request *whisper.Envelope) if len(src)-len(peerID) == 1 { src = src[1:] } - if !bytes.Equal(peerID, src) { + + // if you want to check the signature, you can do it here. e.g.: + // if !bytes.Equal(peerID, src) { + if src == nil { log.Warn(fmt.Sprintf("Wrong signature of p2p request")) return false, 0, 0, topic } -- cgit v1.2.3 From 5e30a5f66e126d35c00276abffe32d99182a1bc7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vlad Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 15:52:10 +0100 Subject: whisper: test fixed --- whisper/mailserver/server_test.go | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'whisper') diff --git a/whisper/mailserver/server_test.go b/whisper/mailserver/server_test.go index c8e0a553a..aeb317e59 100644 --- a/whisper/mailserver/server_test.go +++ b/whisper/mailserver/server_test.go @@ -167,7 +167,8 @@ func singleRequest(t *testing.T, server *WMailServer, env *whisper.Envelope, p * src[0]++ ok, lower, upper, topic = server.validateRequest(src, request) - if ok { + if !ok { + // request should be valid regardless of signature t.Fatalf("request validation false positive, seed: %d (lower: %d, upper: %d).", seed, lower, upper) } } -- cgit v1.2.3 From a69cb3b4ff55c6ea2bafb7bd0ab0ff4afafb148f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vlad Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 00:39:38 +0100 Subject: whisper: comment updated --- whisper/mailserver/server_test.go | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'whisper') diff --git a/whisper/mailserver/server_test.go b/whisper/mailserver/server_test.go index aeb317e59..63864c1e6 100644 --- a/whisper/mailserver/server_test.go +++ b/whisper/mailserver/server_test.go @@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ func singleRequest(t *testing.T, server *WMailServer, env *whisper.Envelope, p * ok, lower, upper, topic = server.validateRequest(src, request) if !ok { // request should be valid regardless of signature - t.Fatalf("request validation false positive, seed: %d (lower: %d, upper: %d).", seed, lower, upper) + t.Fatalf("request validation false negative, seed: %d (lower: %d, upper: %d).", seed, lower, upper) } } -- cgit v1.2.3