From bbb295fea48ca560d7362ce9dd3eed37f16fc557 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Sucha Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2019 11:11:59 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Use newer digest algorithms in TLS error dialog MD5 has been broken for a long time now and SHA1 has been deprecated as well. SHA1 is not used when issuing new publicly trusted certificates since 1 January 2016[1] and there are more and more effective attacks[2][3] against it, so display SHA1 fingerprint only for old certificates to encourage use of safer digests by users. So, we display SHA-256 and SHA-512 fingerprints instead in the common case. [1] https://cabforum.org/wp-content/uploads/CA-Browser-Forum-BR-1.6.5.pdf [2] https://shattered.io/static/shattered.pdf [3] https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/459.pdf Signed-off-by: Martin Sucha --- src/gui/sslerrordialog.cpp | 13 +++++++++---- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/gui/sslerrordialog.cpp b/src/gui/sslerrordialog.cpp index 8b6350efa7..814a7b0af0 100644 --- a/src/gui/sslerrordialog.cpp +++ b/src/gui/sslerrordialog.cpp @@ -184,10 +184,15 @@ QString SslErrorDialog::certDiv(QSslCertificate cert) const msg += QL("

"); - QString md5sum = Utility::formatFingerprint(cert.digest(QCryptographicHash::Md5).toHex()); - QString sha1sum = Utility::formatFingerprint(cert.digest(QCryptographicHash::Sha1).toHex()); - msg += tr("Fingerprint (MD5): %1").arg(md5sum) + QL("
"); - msg += tr("Fingerprint (SHA1): %1").arg(sha1sum) + QL("
"); + if (cert.effectiveDate() < QDateTime(QDate(2016, 1, 1), QTime(), Qt::UTC)) { + QString sha1sum = Utility::formatFingerprint(cert.digest(QCryptographicHash::Sha1).toHex()); + msg += tr("Fingerprint (SHA1): %1").arg(sha1sum) + QL("
"); + } + + QString sha256sum = Utility::formatFingerprint(cert.digest(QCryptographicHash::Sha256).toHex()); + QString sha512sum = Utility::formatFingerprint(cert.digest(QCryptographicHash::Sha512).toHex()); + msg += tr("Fingerprint (SHA-256): %1").arg(sha256sum) + QL("
"); + msg += tr("Fingerprint (SHA-512): %1").arg(sha512sum) + QL("
"); msg += QL("
"); msg += tr("Effective Date: %1").arg(cert.effectiveDate().toString()) + QL("
"); msg += tr("Expiration Date: %1").arg(cert.expiryDate().toString()) + QL("

");