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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2014-09-05 17:46:04 (GMT)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2014-09-17 22:19:54 (GMT)
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signed push: allow stale nonce in stateless mode
When operating with the stateless RPC mode, we will receive a nonce issued by another instance of us that advertised our capability and refs some time ago. Update the logic to check received nonce to detect this case, compute how much time has passed since the nonce was issued and report the status with a new environment variable GIT_PUSH_CERT_NONCE_SLOP to the hooks. GIT_PUSH_CERT_NONCE_STATUS will report "SLOP" in such a case. The hooks are free to decide how large a slop it is willing to accept. Strictly speaking, the "nonce" is not really a "nonce" anymore in the stateless RPC mode, as it will happily take any "nonce" issued by it (which is protected by HMAC and its secret key) as long as it is fresh enough. The degree of this security degradation, relative to the native protocol, is about the same as the "we make sure that the 'git push' decided to update our refs with new objects based on the freshest observation of our refs by making sure the values they claim the original value of the refs they ask us to update exactly match the current state" security is loosened to accomodate the stateless RPC mode in the existing code without this series, so there is no need for those who are already using smart HTTP to push to their repositories to be alarmed any more than they already are. In addition, the server operator can set receive.certnonceslop configuration variable to specify how stale a nonce can be (in seconds). When this variable is set, and if the nonce received in the certificate that passes the HMAC check was less than that many seconds old, hooks are given "OK" in GIT_PUSH_CERT_NONCE_STATUS (instead of "SLOP") and the received nonce value is given in GIT_PUSH_CERT_NONCE, which makes it easier for a simple-minded hook to check if the certificate we received is recent enough. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -89,6 +89,19 @@ the following environment variables:
"git push --signed" sent a bogus nonce.
`OK`;;
"git push --signed" sent the nonce we asked it to send.
+`SLOP`;;
+ "git push --signed" sent a nonce different from what we
+ asked it to send now, but in a previous session. See
+ `GIT_PUSH_CERT_NONCE_SLOP` environment variable.
+
+`GIT_PUSH_CERT_NONCE_SLOP`::
+ "git push --signed" sent a nonce different from what we
+ asked it to send now, but in a different session whose
+ starting time is different by this many seconds from the
+ current session. Only meaningful when
+ `GIT_PUSH_CERT_NONCE_STATUS` says `SLOP`.
+ Also read about `receive.certnonceslop` variable in
+ linkgit:git-config[1].
This hook is called before any refname is updated and before any
fast-forward checks are performed.