oragono/irc/utils/crypto.go

// Copyright (c) 2018 Shivaram Lingamneni <slingamn@cs.stanford.edu>
// released under the MIT license

package utils

import (
	"crypto/rand"
	"crypto/subtle"
	"encoding/base32"
	"encoding/base64"
	"encoding/hex"
	"errors"
	"strings"
)

var (
	// slingamn's own private b32 alphabet, removing 1, l, o, and 0
	B32Encoder = base32.NewEncoding("abcdefghijkmnpqrstuvwxyz23456789").WithPadding(base32.NoPadding)

	ErrInvalidCertfp = errors.New("Invalid certfp")
)

const (
	SecretTokenLength = 26
)

// generate a secret token that cannot be brute-forced via online attacks
func GenerateSecretToken() string {
	// 128 bits of entropy are enough to resist any online attack:
	var buf [16]byte
	rand.Read(buf[:])
	// 26 ASCII characters, should be fine for most purposes
	return B32Encoder.EncodeToString(buf[:])
}

// "munge" a secret token to a new value. requirements:
// 1. MUST be roughly as unlikely to collide with `GenerateSecretToken` outputs
// as those outputs are with each other
// 2. SHOULD be deterministic (motivation: if a JOIN line has msgid x,
// create a deterministic msgid y for the fake HistServ PRIVMSG that "replays" it)
// 3. SHOULD be in the same "namespace" as `GenerateSecretToken` outputs
// (same length and character set)
func MungeSecretToken(token string) (result string) {
	bytes, err := B32Encoder.DecodeString(token)
	if err != nil {
		// this should never happen
		return GenerateSecretToken()
	}
	// add 1 with carrying
	for i := len(bytes) - 1; 0 <= i; i -= 1 {
		bytes[i] += 1
		if bytes[i] != 0 {
			break
		} // else: overflow, carry to the next place
	}
	return B32Encoder.EncodeToString(bytes)
}

// securely check if a supplied token matches a stored token
func SecretTokensMatch(storedToken string, suppliedToken string) bool {
	// XXX fix a potential gotcha: if the stored token is uninitialized,
	// then nothing should match it, not even supplying an empty token.
	if len(storedToken) == 0 {
		return false
	}

	return subtle.ConstantTimeCompare([]byte(storedToken), []byte(suppliedToken)) == 1
}

// generate a 256-bit secret key that can be written into a config file
func GenerateSecretKey() string {
	var buf [32]byte
	rand.Read(buf[:])
	return base64.RawURLEncoding.EncodeToString(buf[:])
}

// Normalize openssl-formatted certfp's to oragono's format
func NormalizeCertfp(certfp string) (result string, err error) {
	result = strings.ToLower(strings.Replace(certfp, ":", "", -1))
	decoded, err := hex.DecodeString(result)
	if err != nil || len(decoded) != 32 {
		return "", ErrInvalidCertfp
	}
	return
}