SignatureTest::test_sign_different_key
fails sometimes #234
Description
A unit test, SignatureTest::test_sign_different_key
, is failing occasionally. The reason for this is that the test expects the verify function to raise a VerificationError
, but the test instead raises an OverflowError
sometimes. This is because the otherpub
modulus (i.e., the "different key" in the test) can be smaller than the signature. To address the issue, the test should be updated to expected either a VerificationError
or an OverflowError
.
The behavior was introduced with PR #206, where verifying was changed to instead use encrypt_int
instead of decrypt_int
. These methods are almost the same, but encrypt_int
checks that the size of the message passed in is less than the size of the modulus. According to RFC 8017: PKCS#1 v2.2, all cryptographic primitives should be performing this check, so the behavior now is actually more correct and decrypt_int
/decrypt_int_fast
should be updated to check its argument's length as well. I will open this update as a separate issue.
I don't believe the failure to perform this check led to any vulnerabilities but I encourage everyone to review it.