The API would allow seeds (and public keys) to be used in place of
accounts at several locations in the API. For example, when calling
account_info, you could pass `"account": "foo"`. The string "foo" is
treated like a seed, so the method returns `actNotFound` (instead of
`actMalformed`, as most developers would expect). In the early days,
this was a convenience to make testing easier. However, it allows for
poor security practices, so it is no longer a good idea. Allowing a
secret or passphrase is now considered a bug. Previously, it was
controlled by the `strict` option on some methods. With this commit,
since the API does not interpret `account` as `seed`, the option
`strict` is no longer needed and is removed.
Removing this behavior from the API is a [breaking
change](https://xrpl.org/request-formatting.html#breaking-changes). One
could argue that it shouldn't be done without bumping the API version;
however, in this instance, there is no evidence that anyone is using the
API in the "legacy" way. Furthermore, it is a potential security hole,
as it allows users to send secrets to places where they are not needed,
where they could end up in logs, error messages, etc. There's no reason
to take such a risk with a seed/secret, since only the public address is
needed.
Resolves: #3329, #3330, #4337
BREAKING CHANGE: Remove non-strict account parsing (#3330)
Use C++17 constant expressions to calculate the inverse
alphabet map at compile time instead of at runtime.
Remove support for encoding & decoding tokens using the
Bitcoin alphabet.
At this point all of the jss::* names are defined in the same
file. That file has been named JsonFields.h. That file name
has little to do with either JsonStaticStrings (which is what
jss is short for) or with jss. The file is renamed to jss.h
so the file name better reflects what the file contains.
All includes of that file are fixed. A few include order
issues are tidied up along the way.
* RIPD-1617, RIPD-1619, RIPD-1621:
Verify serialized public keys more strictly before
using them.
* RIPD-1618:
* Simplify the base58 decoder logic.
* Reduce the complexity of the base58 encoder and
eliminate a potential out-of-bounds memory access.
* Improve type safety by using an `enum class` to
enforce strict type checking for token types.
* RIPD-1616:
Avoid calling `memcpy` with a null pointer even if the
size is specified as zero, since it results in undefined
behavior.
Acknowledgements:
Ripple thanks Guido Vranken for responsibly disclosing these
issues.
Bug Bounties and Responsible Disclosures:
We welcome reviews of the rippled code and urge researchers
to responsibly disclose any issues that they may find. For
more on Ripple's Bug Bounty program, please visit:
https://ripple.com/bug-bounty
