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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2014-08-21 16:45:30 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2014-09-17 14:27:40 -0700 |
| commit | b89363e4a5277038629491f8765c0598f366326c (patch) | |
| tree | 254c02373450167a86f33afdeac9cd851859ca00 /Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt | |
| parent | 9be89160e7382a88e56a02bcf38f4694dd6542d6 (diff) | |
| download | git-b89363e4a5277038629491f8765c0598f366326c.tar.gz | |
signed push: fortify against replay attacks
In order to prevent a valid push certificate for pushing into an
repository from getting replayed in a different push operation, send
a nonce string from the receive-pack process and have the signer
include it in the push certificate. The receiving end uses an HMAC
hash of the path to the repository it serves and the current time
stamp, hashed with a secret seed (the secret seed does not have to
be per-repository but can be defined in /etc/gitconfig) to generate
the nonce, in order to ensure that a random third party cannot forge
a nonce that looks like it originated from it.
The original nonce is exported as GIT_PUSH_CERT_NONCE for the hooks
to examine and match against the value on the "nonce" header in the
certificate to notice a replay, but returned "nonce" header in the
push certificate is examined by receive-pack and the result is
exported as GIT_PUSH_CERT_NONCE_STATUS, whose value would be "OK"
if the nonce recorded in the certificate matches what we expect, so
that the hooks can more easily check.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt index 7b543dc311..dda120631e 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt @@ -485,6 +485,7 @@ references. PKT-LINE("certificate version 0.1" LF) PKT-LINE("pusher" SP ident LF) PKT-LINE("pushee" SP url LF) + PKT-LINE("nonce" SP nonce LF) PKT-LINE(LF) *PKT-LINE(command LF) *PKT-LINE(gpg-signature-lines LF) @@ -533,6 +534,11 @@ Currently, the following header fields are defined: authentication material) the user who ran `git push` intended to push into. +`nonce` nonce:: + The 'nonce' string the receiving repository asked the + pushing user to include in the certificate, to prevent + replay attacks. + The GPG signature lines are a detached signature for the contents recorded in the push certificate before the signature block begins. The detached signature is used to certify that the commands were |