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//! Traits for generating digital signatures
use crate::error::Error;
#[cfg(feature = "digest")]
use crate::digest::Digest;
#[cfg(feature = "rand_core")]
use crate::rand_core::CryptoRngCore;
/// Sign the provided message bytestring using `Self` (e.g. a cryptographic key
/// or connection to an HSM), returning a digital signature.
pub trait Signer<S> {
/// Sign the given message and return a digital signature
fn sign(&self, msg: &[u8]) -> S {
self.try_sign(msg).expect("signature operation failed")
}
/// Attempt to sign the given message, returning a digital signature on
/// success, or an error if something went wrong.
///
/// The main intended use case for signing errors is when communicating
/// with external signers, e.g. cloud KMS, HSMs, or other hardware tokens.
fn try_sign(&self, msg: &[u8]) -> Result<S, Error>;
}
/// Sign the provided message bytestring using `&mut Self` (e.g. an evolving
/// cryptographic key such as a stateful hash-based signature), returning a
/// digital signature.
pub trait SignerMut<S> {
/// Sign the given message, update the state, and return a digital signature.
fn sign(&mut self, msg: &[u8]) -> S {
self.try_sign(msg).expect("signature operation failed")
}
/// Attempt to sign the given message, updating the state, and returning a
/// digital signature on success, or an error if something went wrong.
///
/// Signing can fail, e.g., if the number of time periods allowed by the
/// current key is exceeded.
fn try_sign(&mut self, msg: &[u8]) -> Result<S, Error>;
}
/// Blanket impl of [`SignerMut`] for all [`Signer`] types.
impl<S, T: Signer<S>> SignerMut<S> for T {
fn try_sign(&mut self, msg: &[u8]) -> Result<S, Error> {
T::try_sign(self, msg)
}
}
/// Sign the given prehashed message [`Digest`] using `Self`.
///
/// ## Notes
///
/// This trait is primarily intended for signature algorithms based on the
/// [Fiat-Shamir heuristic], a method for converting an interactive
/// challenge/response-based proof-of-knowledge protocol into an offline
/// digital signature through the use of a random oracle, i.e. a digest
/// function.
///
/// The security of such protocols critically rests upon the inability of
/// an attacker to solve for the output of the random oracle, as generally
/// otherwise such signature algorithms are a system of linear equations and
/// therefore doing so would allow the attacker to trivially forge signatures.
///
/// To prevent misuse which would potentially allow this to be possible, this
/// API accepts a [`Digest`] instance, rather than a raw digest value.
///
/// [Fiat-Shamir heuristic]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat%E2%80%93Shamir_heuristic
#[cfg(feature = "digest")]
pub trait DigestSigner<D: Digest, S> {
/// Sign the given prehashed message [`Digest`], returning a signature.
///
/// Panics in the event of a signing error.
fn sign_digest(&self, digest: D) -> S {
self.try_sign_digest(digest)
.expect("signature operation failed")
}
/// Attempt to sign the given prehashed message [`Digest`], returning a
/// digital signature on success, or an error if something went wrong.
fn try_sign_digest(&self, digest: D) -> Result<S, Error>;
}
/// Sign the given message using the provided external randomness source.
#[cfg(feature = "rand_core")]
pub trait RandomizedSigner<S> {
/// Sign the given message and return a digital signature
fn sign_with_rng(&self, rng: &mut impl CryptoRngCore, msg: &[u8]) -> S {
self.try_sign_with_rng(rng, msg)
.expect("signature operation failed")
}
/// Attempt to sign the given message, returning a digital signature on
/// success, or an error if something went wrong.
///
/// The main intended use case for signing errors is when communicating
/// with external signers, e.g. cloud KMS, HSMs, or other hardware tokens.
fn try_sign_with_rng(&self, rng: &mut impl CryptoRngCore, msg: &[u8]) -> Result<S, Error>;
}
/// Combination of [`DigestSigner`] and [`RandomizedSigner`] with support for
/// computing a signature over a digest which requires entropy from an RNG.
#[cfg(all(feature = "digest", feature = "rand_core"))]
pub trait RandomizedDigestSigner<D: Digest, S> {
/// Sign the given prehashed message `Digest`, returning a signature.
///
/// Panics in the event of a signing error.
fn sign_digest_with_rng(&self, rng: &mut impl CryptoRngCore, digest: D) -> S {
self.try_sign_digest_with_rng(rng, digest)
.expect("signature operation failed")
}
/// Attempt to sign the given prehashed message `Digest`, returning a
/// digital signature on success, or an error if something went wrong.
fn try_sign_digest_with_rng(&self, rng: &mut impl CryptoRngCore, digest: D)
-> Result<S, Error>;
}