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Both crypto.subtle.verify and node:crypto.verify accepted a signature R = identity, S = 0 under a small-order public key for any message. BoringSSL's ED25519_verify checks only the cofactorless equation. Add ncrypto::ed25519Verify, which runs ED25519_verify and then rejects a public key or R that is one of the 14 small-order point encodings (8 canonical, 6 non-canonical), the same table Node uses. Both verify paths call it. Key import is unchanged.
The four y >= p rows were labelled the wrong way round: ee..7f and ee..ff decode to the identity (y = p + 1), ed..7f and ed..ff to the order-4 point (y = p). Their witness messages now make the unfiltered check pass for every row. Add a signature with R = identity under an honest key, which exercises the R check on its own, and port the test from nodejs/node#64026 to the vendored test-webcrypto-sign-verify-eddsa.js.
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WalkthroughThe change adds a shared Ed25519 verification function that rejects listed small-order public keys and signature points. Node crypto and WebCrypto Ed25519 verification use this function. New tests cover small-order encodings, identity points, valid signatures, and tampered signatures. ChangesEd25519 Verification
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Issue #46252 requires crypto.subtle.verify and node:crypto.verify to return false for small-order Ed25519 public keys, non-canonical encodings, and small-order R values. `ncrypto::ed25519Verif… |
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#46252requirescrypto.subtle.verifyandnode:crypto.verifyto returnfalsefor small-order Ed25519 public keys, non-canonical encodings, and small-orderRvalues.ncrypto::ed25519Verifyrejects all 14 listed encodings after Ed25519 verification.CryptoAlgorithmEd25519.cppuses it for WebCrypto.SignJobCtx::runTaskuses it for digest-free Ed25519node:cryptoverification. The added WebCrypto and node:crypto tests cover the affected points, identityR, valid signatures, and tampered signatures.
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#46252. The shared verifier, its call-site integration, point fixtures, and regression tests directly implement or verify the required Ed25519 verification behavior. The changes do not alter key import orX509Certificate.verify, which the PR documents as intentionally unchanged.
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- Around line 18-55: Remove the added `smallOrderVerifyVectors` definition, the
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| name: 'Ed25519', | ||
| publicKey: Buffer.from( | ||
| 'c7176a703d4dd84fba3c0b760d10670f2a2053fa2c39ccc64ec7fd7792ac03fa', | ||
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| signature: Buffer.from( | ||
| 'c7176a703d4dd84fba3c0b760d10670f2a2053fa2c39ccc64ec7fd7792ac037a' + | ||
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| if (!process.features.openssl_is_boringssl) { | ||
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| name: 'Ed448', | ||
| publicKey: Buffer.concat([Buffer.from([1]), Buffer.alloc(56)]), | ||
| signature: Buffer.concat([Buffer.from([1]), Buffer.alloc(113)]), | ||
| data: Buffer.from([1, 2, 3]), | ||
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| async function testSmallOrderVerify({ name, publicKey, signature, data }) { | ||
| const key = await subtle.importKey( | ||
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Keep the vendored Node test unchanged.
test/js/node/test/parallel/test-webcrypto-sign-verify-eddsa.js is part of the Node.js vendored test tree. The new Ed25519 coverage is already covered by test/js/web/crypto/web-crypto.test.ts, which checks all listed small-order points and small-order R values. Remove this added block from the vendored file. Add separate Ed448 coverage to a Bun-owned test only if required.
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-const smallOrderVerifyVectors = [
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- name: 'Ed25519',
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- 'c7176a703d4dd84fba3c0b760d10670f2a2053fa2c39ccc64ec7fd7792ac037a' +
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- smallOrderVerifyVectors.push({
- name: 'Ed448',
- publicKey: Buffer.concat([Buffer.from([1]), Buffer.alloc(56)]),
- signature: Buffer.concat([Buffer.from([1]), Buffer.alloc(113)]),
- data: Buffer.from([1, 2, 3]),
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- await subtle.verify({ name }, key, signature, data),
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- variations.push(testSmallOrderVerify(vector));
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Beyond the inline findings, I also checked the new early-return in SignJobCtx::runTask: the old EVPMDCtxPointer::verify returned a plain false (no m_opensslError) on a bad-length or failed signature, and ncrypto::ed25519Verify does the same, so crypto.verify error semantics are unchanged for Ed25519; EVP_PKEY_get_raw_public_key also handles a private-key KeyObject passed to verify. I grepped src/ for other ED25519_verify / EVP_DigestVerify callers — only the ML-DSA WebCrypto path remains, which is a different algorithm, so no sibling Ed25519 verify site is left unfiltered.
Extended reasoning...
The change adds a shared ncrypto::ed25519Verify with a 14-row small-order table and routes both WebCrypto subtle.verify and one-shot crypto.verify through it, so it touches a security-sensitive signature-verification path. The 32-byte reads of the signature's R half happen after the 64-byte length check and the stack buffer in CryptoSignJob does not outlive the call. Two inline test-coverage findings were posted (no test isolates the public-key clause of the filter; a bare toThrow on the digest-rejection assertion), and the crypto surface means a human should still look, so this is a defer rather than an approve.
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| for (const { name, hex, message } of ED25519_SMALL_ORDER_POINTS) { | ||
| const key = jwkKey(hex); | ||
| expect(key.asymmetricKeyType).toBe("ed25519"); | ||
| results[name] = verify(null, Buffer.from(message), key, zeroSignatureWithR(ED25519_IDENTITY)); |
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🔴 Maintainers get no test that catches the public-key half of the new filter being removed: every new case still passes, so a regression would re-admit the forgery from #46252. Each small-order-key case pairs the key with a small-order R (identity or the same point), so the R clause at ncrypto.cpp:3717 alone rejects it. Fix: add a case under a small-order key with an ordinary R that only the publicKey clause rejects, e.g. key 01 00..00 with signature R = 5866666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666, S = 1, any message, expecting false; cover the one-shot, callback and subtle.verify paths. Same pattern at web-crypto.test.ts:595, web-crypto.test.ts:625, crypto.key-objects.test.ts:1882. [also at: test/js/web/crypto/web-crypto.test.ts:595 - Maintainers get no test that pins the public-key half of the new check: a build that drops the key clause still passes every new test.]
Why this was flagged
The filter in src/jsc/bindings/ncrypto.cpp:3717 has two load-bearing clauses: reject a small-order R and reject a small-order public key. Every new test uses a small-order R: crypto.key-objects.test.ts:1857 and web-crypto.test.ts:595 sign with zeroSignatureWithR(ED25519_IDENTITY) (R = identity), the 'small-order R' cases use R = the key point, and the ported test-webcrypto-sign-verify-eddsa.js:25 vector uses an order-8 R. If the !isSmallOrderEd25519Point(publicKey.data) clause is deleted, the R clause still returns false for all of them and the suite stays green. But with that clause gone a verifier accepts a forgery: under public key A = identity, signature R = encoding of the base point 58 66..66, S = 1 satisfies [1]B = R + [h]A for every message, and ED25519_verify at ncrypto.cpp:3710 returns 1. R = B is not in kEd25519SmallOrderPoints, so only the public-key clause rejects it. On the base branch this forgery is accepted; after merging it is rejected, but no test proves the clause that rejects it, contrary to the repository's own rule that deleting each load-bearing clause of a fix must break at least one test.
Verification: src/jsc/bindings/ncrypto.cpp:3717 return !isSmallOrderEd25519Point(signature.data) && !isSmallOrderEd25519Point(publicKey.data); has two independent clauses, and the publicKey clause is independently load-bearing. Every new test pairs a small-order key with a small-order R, so the R clause alone turns each one false. Deleting the publicKey clause therefore leaves every assertion green.
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🟡 nit (optional): the "digest is still rejected" assertion is a bare toThrow(), so it does not pin the error the PR says it pins. At test/js/node/crypto/crypto.key-objects.test.ts:1909 any throw passes, including a TypeError from a wrong argument. Fix: assert the specific error, e.g. toThrow(expect.objectContaining({ code: "ERR_OSSL_EVP_COMMAND_NOT_SUPPORTED" })) or the exact message, so the new early-return in SignJobCtx::runTask cannot silently change the error class or code for the digest path. [also at: test/js/node/crypto/crypto.key-objects.test.ts:1910 - nit: the "digest is still rejected" assertion uses a bare toThrow(), so any throw at all (a TypeError from a bad argument, a different OpenSSL error) satisfies it.]
Why this was flagged
The test at test/js/node/crypto/crypto.key-objects.test.ts:1909 calls expect(() => verify("sha256", message, publicKey, signature)).toThrow() with no argument. The PR description states this test pins ERR_OSSL_EVP_COMMAND_NOT_SUPPORTED, but a bare toThrow() accepts any exception. The new branch at src/jsc/bindings/node/crypto/CryptoSignJob.cpp:108 is guarded by !m_digest; if that guard were dropped or the digest path's error changed to a different code or a generic Error, this assertion would still pass. The repository review instructions explicitly reject bare toThrow() and require a specific error class/code/message. On the base branch there is no such test, so this is a weakness in the new coverage rather than a runtime regression.
Verification: nit. Whenever the digest-path error for an Ed25519 crypto.verify("sha256", ...) changes class or code, this assertion still passes. test/js/node/crypto/crypto.key-objects.test.ts:1910 reads expect(() => verify("sha256", message, publicKey, signature)).toThrow(); with no argument, so any exception satisfies it. Consequence is weakened regression coverage of the digest path.
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Closing: the same check landed on main in #47567 (89fbb78).
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Fixes #46252
Problem
crypto.subtle.verify("Ed25519", ...)andcrypto.verify(null, ...)returntrueforR = identity, S = 0under the identity point as public key, for any message. Same for the other small-order points. Node 24.22 returnsfalse.ED25519_verify(CryptoAlgorithmEd25519.cpp:64,CryptoSignJob.cpp:209). It checks only the cofactorless equation, which a small-order key satisfies without a private key.Fix
ncrypto::ed25519Verify:ED25519_verify, thenfalsewhen the public key orRis one of the 14 small-order encodings. The table is Node's (crypto: reject small-order EdDSA points during verify nodejs/node#64026).SignJobCtx::runTaskcalls it for an Ed25519 key with no digest, before it creates anEVP_MD_CTX. With a digest the call still throws as before.X509Certificate.verifyare unchanged, as in Node.web-crypto.test.ts,crypto.key-objects.test.ts(5 new cases each, 4 fail on main), Node's hunk intest-webcrypto-sign-verify-eddsa.js, the ported sign/verify suites (Notes).Background
R = identity, S = 0passes[S]B = R + [h]Awhenever the order dividesh. Six more rows are non-canonical encodings of the same points, which BoringSSL accepts as a key.ED25519_verifycaller insrc/.X509Certificate.verify, which Node does not have either.Downsides
Runder an honest key now fails. Only the key owner can produce one. Node, libsodium and ed25519-dalekverify_strictreject it too.memcmpof 32 bytes. Instructions not measured: no valgrind or perf here. Size: +1061 B.text, 0 B.rodata(per-TU-O2objects,llvm-size, main 7a74841 vs PR; no bloaty here).subtle.verify: 0 -> 0. Other key types pay oneEVP_PKEY_idcompare.Notes
EVP_MD_CTX_new1 -> 0 andEVP_PKEY_CTX_new1 -> 0 per node:crypto Ed25519 verify, measured withOPENSSL_mallocbreakpoints.ED25519_verify(callers insrc/: 1 (grep,ncrypto.cpp).EVP_DigestVerify(callers unchanged (ncrypto.cpp,CryptoAlgorithmMLDSA.cpp).-ftime-trace, frontend ms, main vs PR):ncrypto.cpp16978 vs 16813,CryptoSignJob.cpp16598 vs 18014,CryptoAlgorithmEd25519.cpp19869 vs 16977. Run-to-run noise is about 2 s. Thencrypto.hedit causes a one-time rebuild of its includers.test-crypto-sign-verify.js,test-crypto-async-sign-verify.js,test-crypto-eddsa-variants.js,test-webcrypto-sign-verify.js,test-webcrypto-sign-verify-ecdsa.js,test-webcrypto-sign-verify-ml-dsa.js,test-crypto-pqc-sign-verify-ml-dsa.js.test/js/web/crypto/ed25519-small-order.tswere found by search:"msg N"is the first N for whichSHA-512(R || A || M) mod Lis a multiple of the point order. Each of the 14 rows returnstrueon bun 1.4.3 with its message andfalsewith the fix and on Node 24.22.Rcheck alone (identityRunder an honest key), the Node test port, two comments that overclaimed.crypto.verify("sha256", msg, ed25519Key, sig)still throwsERR_OSSL_EVP_COMMAND_NOT_SUPPORTED(pinned by a test).crypto.createVerify().verify(ed25519Key)throws before verification in Node and Bun. Ed448 has no table because BoringSSL does not implement Ed448.worker.terminate() during createPrivateKey from an EC JWKincrypto.key-objects.test.tshits its 5 s timeout on this container with and without the change (ASAN, 4 workers x 2 rounds).no test proof · iteration 0 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/js/node/crypto/crypto.key-objects.test.ts