"Finite Field Arithmetic." Chapter 20D: "Litmus" Errata: Support for Nested Clearsigned Texts.

This article is part of a series of hands-on tutorials introducing FFA, or the Finite Field Arithmetic library. FFA differs from the typical "Open Sores" abomination, in that -- rather than trusting the author blindly with their lives -- prospective users are expected to read and fully understand every single line. In exactly the same manner that you would understand and pack your own parachute. The reader will assemble and test a working FFA with his own hands, and at the same time grasp the purpose of each moving part therein.

You will need:

Add the above vpatches and seals to your V-set, and press to ffa_ch20d_litmus_nested_fix.kv.vpatch.

As of Chapter 20D, the versions of Peh and FFA are 250 and 253, respectively. FFA and Peh themselves have not changed from Chapter 19.

Compile Peh:

cd ffacalc
gprbuild

... and install it to a path visible in your shell (e.g. /usr/bin.)


Litmus as given in the previous chapter would choke (failing safe, i.e. rejecting the signature) when fed "nested" clearsigned texts. This bug has been fixed:


litmus.sh:

# 'ASCII-Armoured' PGP signatures have mandatory start and end markers:
START_MARKER="^\-\-\-\-\-BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE\-\-\-\-\-"
END_MARKER="^\-\-\-\-\-END PGP SIGNATURE\-\-\-\-\-"
 
.......
 
CLEAR_MARKER="^\-\-\-\-\-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE\-\-\-\-\-"
 
.......


To test, invoke Litmus with two arguments: the public key, followed by the input file:

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA512
 
- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA512
 
This is a test-fire GPG 'clearsigned' document written for
FFA Chapter 20C.
- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux)
 
iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJeGimSAAoJELmCKKABq//HfgsH/1bg0zpL1PoApHE5BMNXmJ7U
7vWKQJ3ZCsGvkUSIgIZESTp6EpGDclBQqvBsdBZ9KVnBpGiIbmKbNjDNlZU5YcWt
WQ7FO+r4LiUZOJRiPADWMM7tpI3azXelPyuge7hFe6o3UG0aErSceKXcoFGKFDO2
MCZXkR6Lfd3rYKHcySOEvkoCMQ4ytbEQM4IBE57AqQIpmnI7Mo1033TnDgL2KdXd
PHLtedNyaKwzVJw08BtKjzole130GvElSMmxilrHZ0w+2J4uHRuBELyZbJ55vu+x
Bx+Q5OpMwz0ZG4vjz8ncZE/nCvK/sZv/RXsdNow95fETH5DKC9HfIP279kKlBRg=
=3ozu
- -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux)
 
iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJeHgg9AAoJELmCKKABq//HHywH/3cfUfV8SH2yuxHNBPmk3Yha
Nw/40YK52/DJ/H+RUY6Zei2X3tJPYe3vDN2P3iRqKBycpUPtNnCDaF3BAvg7cyRQ
PghpykoSeERxIQZaIQWTUyMQRBwoMF90wiQpcgCEXRH3xZo/p0M3M6zPrqKElXf4
essZmM3jsvfU9T8JGho0RPyK1J42fTBCiRb0Y++ZQGWVEwJugtVnQOL76fYmSUpW
vDBKgNJfvGOMNTCTLemqD2nn6DZzLN9TOrRlmLvfr0lbzu9rSGAMtRKqozhZeCXf
LiTWWVZkCUGr/SEk5olhbHQnfoYMH1V071qJnpv1/5QqIiZ1z2KbP65Ba/i3i0A=
=o/9T
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

./litmus.sh asciilifeform.peh asciilifeform-clearsigned-twice.txt

... which will yield the output:

VALID GPG RSA signature from asciilifeform <stas@loper-os.org>

Naturally, no verification is performed on the embedded clearsigned text (just as in traditional GPG. If you want to operate on the embedded text, you must extract it.)


~To be continued!~

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