When Ed25519 support was added to ripple-lib, a way to specify
whether a seed should be used to derive a "classic" secp256k1
keypair or a "new" Ed25519 keypair was needed, and the
requirements were that:
1. previously seeds would, correctly, generate a secp256k1
keypair.
2. users would not have to know about whether the seed was
used to generate a secp256k1 or an Ed25519 keypair.
To address these requirements, the decision was made to encode
the type of key within the seed and a custom encoding was
designed.
The encoding uses a token type of 1 and prefixes the actual
seed with a 2 byte header, selected to ensure that all such
keypairs will, when encoded, begin with the string "sEd".
This custom encoding is non-standard and was not previously
documented; as a result, it is not widely supported and other
sofware may treat such keys as invalid. This can make it
difficult for users that have stored such a seed to use
wallets or other tooling that is not based on ripple-lib.
This commit adds support to rippled for automatically
detecting and properly handling such seeds.
The lsfDepositAuth flag limits the AccountIDs that can deposit into
the account that has the flag set. The original design only
allowed deposits to complete if the account with the flag set also
signed the transaction that caused the deposit.
The DepositPreauth ledger type allows an account with the
lsfDepositAuth flag set to preauthorize additional accounts.
This preauthorization allows them to sign deposits as well. An
account can add DepositPreauth objects to the ledger (and remove
them as well) using the DepositPreauth transaction.
* 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
