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fix(platform)!: refuse high-S signatures on key-recovery paths from protocol version 15 - #5899
What this does. From protocol version 15, wherever Platform checks an ECDSA signature by recovering the signer's key, it accepts only the form a signer produces: S in the lower half of the curve order ("low-S") and a header byte that names a compressed key. Protocol version 14 and earlier execute exactly as before.
Value. Today anyone who sees a pending transition signed this way can rewrite the signature into a second valid form without the signer's key, in two ways: replace S with n - S and flip the recovery id's parity (the "high-S" twin), or rewrite the header byte from 31 + id to 27 + id (the "uncompressed header" twin). Either twin recovers the same key, is accepted, and has a different transition hash, so a wallet or app waiting on the hash it broadcast never sees its result. Nonces, revisions and single-use asset locks already stop the transition from running twice; this refuses both twins on these paths.
Risks. This is a consensus change, gated on the unreleased protocol version 15 only. A signer that produced high-S signatures, or that wrote the header of an uncompressed key (27 + id), would be refused from version 15. dashcore::signer::sign always produces low-S under the compressed key's header (31 + id), as does every signer in this repository, so none of them is affected; an external signer that does either would be. Each path keeps the error and the unpaid class it has today for a signature that does not verify, so no payer changes.
This supersedes #5670, which carried the low-S part of this fix but was stacked on #5637 (a rust-dashcore bump that was closed without merging). The design is #5670's, by @Claudius-Maginificent on behalf of @lklimek; this PR ports it directly onto v5.1-dev. The header rule was added here after review.
Issue being fixed or feature implemented
Paths that verify a signature against a full public key (ECDSA_SECP256K1 identity keys, proofs of possession, P2SH multisig) already refuse high-S. Paths that recover the key and compare its HASH160 accept it, and accept either header form because the recovered key is always hashed compressed:
Path
Where
Error (unchanged, unpaid)
Identity-signed transition with an ECDSA_HASH160 key, masternode votes included (the VOTING key is HASH160)
dpp verify_ecdsa_hash_160_signature_by_public_key_hash, reached from verify_identity_signed_signature v0 and v1
InvalidStateTransitionSignatureError
P2PKH address witness (address funds transfer, address credit withdrawal, address funding from asset lock inputs, identity create and top-up from addresses, shield)
An identity create funded by an asset lock, signed with the lock's one-time key. signature is what the wallet made; the two twins are what a third party derives from it with no key.
signature = 31 + id | R | S S <= n/2
high-S twin = 31 + (id ^ 1) | R | n - S S > n/2
header twin = 27 + id | R | S header of an uncompressed key
Before (protocol version 14, and v5.1-dev at protocol version 15 until this PR), for either twin:
process(twin) -> SuccessfulExecution identity created under hash(twin)
the wallet waits on hash(signature) forever
After (protocol version 15), for either twin:
process(twin) -> UnpaidConsensusError(SignatureError(BasicECDSAError(..)))
asset lock left unused
process(signature) -> SuccessfulExecution identity created under hash(signature)
Protocol version 14 still returns SuccessfulExecution for each twin, so committed blocks replay with the same results.
What was done?
One switch, so every path activates together:
DPPStateTransitionMethodVersions::verify_hash_signature: 0 in STATE_TRANSITION_METHOD_VERSIONS_V1 and V2. The new STATE_TRANSITION_METHOD_VERSIONS_V3 (V2 with verify_hash_signature: 1) is selected only by PLATFORM_V15; see note 43 in v15.rs. Protocol version 15 still selected protocol version 14's V2 table, so this is a new table and not an amendment.
dpp::util::ecdsa::verify_hash_signature(hash, signature, pubkey_hash, platform_version), a dispatcher in its own directory under the util::ecdsa module v5.1-dev already has, with one module per generation:
generation 0 (v0/mod.rs) is dashcore::signer::verify_hash_signature and nothing else;
generation 1 (v1/mod.rs) runs the same check first, so a malformed or wrong-key signature keeps the library's error, and then refuses a header that does not name a compressed key (outside 31 to 34) and a signature that is not EcdsaSignature::is_low_s(), each as EcdsaError::VerifyFailed;
an unknown version is ProtocolError::UnknownVersionMismatch.
Every consensus call of signer::verify_hash_signature listed above now goes through that dispatcher.
PlatformAddress::verify_bytes_against_witness and StateTransitionWitnessValidation::validate_witnesses take platform_version as the last parameter, and validate_witnesses returns Result. Only UnknownVersionMismatch propagates as an internal error. Every other error, including P2SH's, maps to the consensus error as before.
The rust-dashcore pin is not changed. The checks use sign_message::from_slice(..) with is_compressed() and signature()?.is_low_s(), which the pinned revision has. Nothing is taken from #5637.
Recovery-based code left as it is, on purpose:
drive-abci shield_from_asset_lock/transform_into_action/v0: selected by protocol versions 13 and earlier only, where the switch is 0 anyway. It keeps its direct signer::verify_hash_signature call so the frozen module stays byte-identical.
StateTransition::sign_with_core_signer (dpp): client-side signing, it verifies nothing. It does not normalize S from an external Core signer; signers built on libsecp256k1 produce low-S. A possible follow-up.
Client-only recovery in rs-platform-wallet (sign_message, masternode withdrawal), rs-sdk-cxx (signer.rs) and rs-platform-encryption (recover_signer of a private document envelope): none is reached by dpp, drive or drive-abci validation.
The older tests address_funding_from_asset_lock ... test_high_s_signature_rejected and address_funds_transfer ... test_signature_with_high_s_value corrupt S instead of building a real twin, so they do not test malleability. They are left untouched; the new tests build the twin properly.
signer::verify_hash_signature(h, s, pkh) becomes verify_hash_signature(h, s, pkh, platform_version)?. At protocol versions 14 and earlier every table holds verify_hash_signature 0, which returns Ok(signer::verify_hash_signature(h, s, pkh)): the same call, with the same Err mapped to the same BasicECDSAError. The outer ? fires only on UnknownVersionMismatch, which no protocol version selects.
Same as above. v0 (protocol versions 13 and earlier) is untouched.
dpp verify_identity_signed_signature v0 (protocol versions 13 and earlier) and v1 (14 and 15)
as listed
Only platform_version is threaded through. The ECDSA_HASH160 arm calls the dispatcher, which is signer::verify_hash_signature at protocol versions 14 and earlier, with the same InvalidStateTransitionSignatureError mapping. The BLS and SECP256K1 arms are untouched.
drive-abci validate_address_witnesses v0, dpp validate_witnesses and verify_bytes_against_witness
every protocol version
The P2PKH arm is as above. The new Err(UnknownVersionMismatch) => return Err arm is unreachable at protocol versions 14 and earlier, because that variant comes only from the dispatcher and every table holds a known version. Every other Err maps to InvalidStateTransitionSignatureError exactly as before. P2SH branches and fee operations are untouched.
Each edited generation has a test at protocol version 14 showing both twins still accepted there.
How Has This Been Tested?
New tests:
dpp util::ecdsa::verify_hash_signature (the dispatcher):
S = n/2 is low and S = n/2 + 1 is high;
the high-S twin of a real signature is accepted at protocol versions 1, 13 and 14 and refused at latest, while the original is accepted at both;
the uncompressed header twin (header rewritten from 31 + id to 27 + id, R and S untouched) is accepted at protocol versions 1, 13 and 14 and refused at latest, also when combined with the high-S twin;
of the eight headers 27 to 34, latest accepts exactly the one the signer wrote;
another key, a wrong length, S = 0, S = n, S > n and a header outside 27 to 34 fail with the same library error at protocol version 14 and at latest.
dpp path tests:should_refuse_an_ecdsa_hash160_signature_twin_from_protocol_version_15 (a credit transfer and a masternode vote) and should_refuse_a_p2pkh_witness_twin_from_protocol_version_15, each with both twins.
drive-abci, through process_raw_state_transitions at protocol version 14 and at latest, one test each for identity create, identity top-up, address funding from asset lock, shield from asset lock (should_refuse_an_asset_lock_signature_twin_from_protocol_version_15, the shield with a really proved bundle so an accepted signature executes) and the address-funds-transfer P2PKH witness (should_refuse_a_p2pkh_witness_twin_from_protocol_version_15): protocol version 14 accepts each twin; latest refuses each with UnpaidConsensusError, leaves the asset lock unused, and then accepts the original. Plus should_return_an_internal_error_for_an_unknown_hash_signature_version.
The twins are built properly by dpp::tests::utils::high_s_twin (S becomes n - S and the recovery id's parity is flipped) and uncompressed_header_twin (the header loses 4).
Each new test fails without its change:
with the six call sites put back on signer::verify_hash_signature (dispatcher and tables kept), all seven path tests failed at the "latest refuses the twin" assertion;
with STATE_TRANSITION_METHOD_VERSIONS_V3 set back to verify_hash_signature: 0, the dispatcher's latest-version test failed;
with the header check removed from generation 1 (the low-S check kept), should_refuse_the_uncompressed_header_twin_at_the_latest_protocol_version, should_accept_a_single_header_at_the_latest_protocol_version and all seven path tests failed.
Run locally on the final tree (targeted checks only, no full suites):
cargo check -p dpp and cargo check -p dpp --no-default-features
pass
cargo check -p dash-sdk --tests (one test caller of verify_bytes_against_witness updated) passed on the first commit and was not re-run after the header rule, which touches nothing in that crate.
Not run locally: the full workspace suites and the JS, WASM and mobile builds; CI covers them.
Breaking Changes
Consensus, from protocol version 15: a high-S ECDSA signature, and one whose header names an uncompressed key, are refused on the key-recovery paths listed above. Protocol version 14 and earlier are unchanged.
dpp API: PlatformAddress::verify_bytes_against_witness and StateTransitionWitnessValidation::validate_witnesses take platform_version as a new last parameter, and validate_witnesses returns Result<WitnessValidationResult, ProtocolError>.
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New Features
Protocol version 15 rejects high-S ECDSA signatures and signatures identifying uncompressed keys in address witnesses and state transitions.
Protocol versions 1–14 retain their existing signature acceptance behavior.
Bug Fixes
Signature verification now follows the active protocol version across address transfers, asset-lock operations, and identity-related transitions.
Unknown protocol-version errors are surfaced during witness validation rather than treated as ordinary validation results.
…rotocol version 15
A signature checked by recovering its public key and comparing HASH160
(ECDSA_HASH160 identity keys, masternode votes included; P2PKH address
witnesses; asset-lock one-time keys) stays valid with S replaced by n - S
and the recovery parity flipped, so a third party can change a
transition's hash. Every released Platform accepts that twin there.
`dpp::util::ecdsa::verify_hash_signature` dispatches on the new
`verify_hash_signature` switch: 0 is dashcore's recovery check, 1 also
refuses S above n/2 (`EcdsaSignature::is_low_s`) with VerifyFailed, after
the library check so every other input keeps its error.
STATE_TRANSITION_METHOD_VERSIONS_V3 selects 1, for PLATFORM_V15 only.
Each path keeps its error and its unpaid class: InvalidStateTransition-
SignatureError for identity signatures and witnesses, BasicECDSAError
for asset locks. `validate_witnesses` and `verify_bytes_against_witness`
take `platform_version`; only UnknownVersionMismatch propagates as an
internal error, every other error maps to the consensus error as before.
Ported onto v5.1-dev from #5670, whose base (#5637) was closed unmerged.
Co-authored-by: Lukasz Klimek <[email protected]>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.2 <[email protected]>
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Walkthrough
ECDSA hash-signature verification now uses a platform-version-selected method. Protocol version 15 selects checks that reject high-S signatures and headers naming uncompressed keys. DPP and Drive validation paths pass the platform version to verification, and tests cover behavior across protocol versions.
Changes: Versioned ECDSA Signature Policy
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Summary
Method-version selection and ECDSA verifier packages/rs-platform-version/src/version/dpp_versions/dpp_state_transition_method_versions/*, packages/rs-platform-version/src/version/v15.rs, packages/rs-dpp/src/util/ecdsa/*, packages/rs-dpp/src/tests/utils/mod.rs
The method-version tables add verify_hash_signature; protocol version 15 selects version 1. The verifier dispatches by method version. Version 1 rejects high-S signatures and uncompressed-key headers. Tests cover version selection, signature variants, and verification errors.
Address-witness and state-transition verification APIs now accept and pass a platform version. Witness validation propagates unknown-version errors. Updated tests and callers supply a version and check signature outcomes across protocol versions.
Transition validation and regression coverage packages/rs-drive-abci/src/execution/validation/state_transition/*
Address-based validation passes the platform version to witness checks. Asset-lock, address-transfer, identity-create, identity-top-up, and shield transitions use the version-aware verifier. Regression tests compare signature-twin outcomes across protocol versions.
sequenceDiagram
participant AddressWitnessValidation
participant PlatformAddress
participant verify_hash_signature
participant PlatformVersion
participant Dashcore
AddressWitnessValidation->>PlatformAddress: Verify witness using platform version
PlatformAddress->>verify_hash_signature: Pass hash, signature, key hash, and platform version
verify_hash_signature->>PlatformVersion: Read verifier method version
verify_hash_signature->>Dashcore: Recover key and verify signature
verify_hash_signature-->>PlatformAddress: Return verification result or version error
PlatformAddress-->>AddressWitnessValidation: Return witness verification result
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dashpay/platform#5717: Adds ECDSA helpers in the same module path and affects overlapping state-transition verification behavior.
dashpay/platform#5643: Adds low-S checks to P2SH witness verification, which overlaps with this PR’s version-dependent high-S handling.
This change makes protocol version 15 reject high-S signatures and uncompressed-key headers on the key-recovery paths, and earlier versions keep their current behavior. The supplied evidence shows no remaining merge-blocking issue.
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Final validation — Phase 1 + Phase 2
The PV15 dispatcher reaches the active recovery-based verification paths and preserves the historical behavior selected by protocol versions 1–14. However, the new verifier rejects only high-S values: the pinned recovery implementation accepts both compressed and uncompressed compact headers while always comparing the compressed recovered-key hash, so changing a header from 31+r to 27+r still produces an accepted transition with a different serialized hash. This defeats the stated malleability fix and requires correction; current CI shows no failed code checks, with Rust workspace and Swift checks passing.
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💬 Nitpick: Reuse the shared high-S twin helper packages/rs-dpp/tests/ecdsa_compatibility.rs:245-255
This integration test defines a second high_s_twin implementation with hardcoded S bytes and header metadata, while the new shared dpp::tests::utils::high_s_twin computes the same transformation from the fixture signature. Keeping both copies allows the historical fixture and its malleated twin to drift independently. Delegate the local helper to the shared implementation.
Triage: critical by gpt-6.1-sol (effort low) — This large cross-cutting diff changes consensus-gated signature validation across DPP and drive-abci paths, directly affecting cryptography, key recovery, and funds or asset-lock state transitions.
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In `packages/rs-dpp/src/util/ecdsa.rs`:
- [BLOCKING] packages/rs-dpp/src/util/ecdsa.rs:106-109: Require canonical compressed metadata in the PV15 recovery verifier
The PV15 verifier checks `S` but does not validate the compact signature's compression metadata. In the pinned `rust-dashcore`, headers 27–30 and 31–34 encode the same recovery IDs with different compression flags, while `signer::verify_hash_signature` recovers the key and hashes it through `ECDSAPublicKey::new`, which always uses compressed serialization. An observer can therefore change a valid low-S signature's header from 31+r to 27+r without changing R, S, or the recovery ID; the signature passes this verifier and changes the serialized transition hash because the signature is included in `StateTransition::hash(false)`. This leaves the same hash-substitution problem that the PV15 change is intended to close. Version 1 must require the canonical compressed header range 31..=34, while version 0 must remain unchanged, and a regression test should show historical acceptance but latest-version refusal for a header-only mutation.
- [SUGGESTION] packages/rs-dpp/src/util/ecdsa.rs:69-109: Give the versioned verifier explicit generation modules
The new versioned method is dispatched correctly, but generation 0 is implemented inline and generation 1 is an unnumbered `verify_low_s_hash_signature` helper. The repository's versioning convention requires a dispatcher plus separate `v0/mod.rs`, `v1/mod.rs`, and so on. Extracting these implementations makes the historical freeze boundary explicit and prevents a future edit to the PV15 implementation from being mistaken for an inert change to the legacy behavior.
In `packages/rs-dpp/src/tests/utils/mod.rs`:
- [SUGGESTION] packages/rs-dpp/src/tests/utils/mod.rs:291-300: Validate preconditions before constructing a high-S test twin
The public `fixtures-and-mocks` helper assumes a valid 65-byte compact signature, but it indexes `twin[33..]` before validating the length and subtracts the header base without checking that the header is in 27..=34. Truncated or malformed test input therefore produces an out-of-bounds or arithmetic panic instead of the documented precondition failure. Add explicit length and header assertions before slicing and arithmetic; the scalar `expect` can then remain the documented valid-S invariant.
In `packages/rs-dpp/tests/ecdsa_compatibility.rs`:
- [NITPICK] packages/rs-dpp/tests/ecdsa_compatibility.rs:245-255: Reuse the shared high-S twin helper
This integration test defines a second `high_s_twin` implementation with hardcoded S bytes and header metadata, while the new shared `dpp::tests::utils::high_s_twin` computes the same transformation from the fixture signature. Keeping both copies allows the historical fixture and its malleated twin to drift independently. Delegate the local helper to the shared implementation.
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These are valid observations, but they are outside this PR's scope and should be handled in separate issues or author/maintainer-requested PRs rather than blocking this review.
Normalize S in StateTransition::sign_with_core_signer as a follow-up — Dropped as pre-existing client-side behavior outside this consensus verifier change. The method explicitly performs no signing validation, repository signers produce low-S signatures, and the protocol's documented behavior is to reject nonconformant external signatures from protocol version 15.
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✅ Withdrawn at 953ad278; see the replies below.
🟡 Suggestion: Validate preconditions before constructing a high-S test twin
The public fixtures-and-mocks helper assumes a valid 65-byte compact signature, but it indexes twin[33..] before validating the length and subtracts the header base without checking that the header is in 27..=34. Truncated or malformed test input therefore produces an out-of-bounds or arithmetic panic instead of the documented precondition failure. Add explicit length and header assertions before slicing and arithmetic; the scalar expect can then remain the documented valid-S invariant.
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pubfn high_s_twin(signature:&[u8]) -> Vec<u8>{
letmut twin = signature.to_vec();
let s:[u8;32] = twin[33..].try_into().expect("a 65-byte signature");
let negated = secp256k1::SecretKey::from_secret_bytes(s)
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Withdrawn (re-reviewed at 9eb8dbb5): The helper is test-only and its current callers provide valid 65-byte low-S signatures produced by the signer, matching its documented precondition. Extra assertions would improve failure diagnostics but do not address a demonstrated defect on this head.
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No change to high_s_twin, as the suggestion was withdrawn: it is test-only and its callers pass signatures the signer just made. The new sibling helper uncompressed_header_twin (953ad27) does assert the length and the header range before rewriting, since its arithmetic depends on them. Leaving this thread for the reviewer or owner to close.
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Withdrawn (re-reviewed at 953ad278): Your explanation matches the current callers: they pass valid signer-produced signatures satisfying high_s_twin's documented precondition. The sibling helper's assertions do not establish a defect in those callers, so no change is required on this thread.
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Conflict in packages/rs-platform-version/src/version/v15.rs: both sides
added a note 40 to the PLATFORM_V15 doc comment. The base's note (a
multiple choice proposal pays a processing fee, #5897) keeps 40; the
low-S note becomes 41, with its reference on the
state_transition_method_versions line.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.2 <[email protected]>
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Pin the activation test to protocol version 15.
When a later protocol becomes latest, the third case will stop testing version 15. A regression in the version 15 rule could then escape this test. Use 15 for that case; add a separate latest-version case if needed. At the reviewed revision, latest is version 15. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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- let latest = PlatformVersion::latest().protocol_version;
// (protocol version, whether the twin is submitted). The asset lock is consumed by
// the first transition a block accepts, so the low-S signature at 14 gets its own
// platform.
- for (protocol_version, submit_twin) in [(14, false), (14, true), (latest, true)] {+ for (protocol_version, submit_twin) in [(14, false), (14, true), (15, true)] {
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Re-review — Final validation — Phase 1 + Phase 2
The PV15 low-S rule is correctly selected through the new version table, and the supplied CI snapshot reports successful Rust, Swift, and Kotlin checks; JavaScript and wasm32 checks remain in progress. Two findings remain on the reviewed head: the new verifier still accepts alternate recovery-header metadata, and its generation implementations do not follow the repository’s explicit versioned-module layout.
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🔴 Blocking: Require canonical compressed metadata in the PV15 recovery verifier — packages/rs-dpp/src/util/ecdsa.rs:106-109 (thread)
🟡 Suggestion: Give the versioned verifier explicit generation modules — packages/rs-dpp/src/util/ecdsa.rs:69-109 (thread)
Triage: critical by gpt-6.1-sol (effort low) — This large cross-cutting diff changes consensus-critical signature validation and cryptographic key-recovery behavior across protocol-versioned DPP and Drive execution paths, including funds movement and identity creation.
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In `packages/rs-dpp/src/util/ecdsa.rs`:
- [BLOCKING] packages/rs-dpp/src/util/ecdsa.rs:106-109: Require canonical compressed metadata in the PV15 recovery verifier
(carried; thread: https://github.com/dashpay/platform/pull/5899#discussion_r4556120671)
- [SUGGESTION] packages/rs-dpp/src/util/ecdsa.rs:69-109: Give the versioned verifier explicit generation modules
(carried; thread: https://github.com/dashpay/platform/pull/5899#discussion_r4556120706)
…om protocol version 15
Key recovery hashes the recovered key in its compressed form whatever the
compact signature's header says, so a valid signature stays valid with its
header rewritten from 31 + id to 27 + id: a second twin, beside the high-S
one, that changes a transition's hash without the signer's key.
Generation 1 of `verify_hash_signature` (protocol version 15 only) now also
refuses a header that does not name a compressed key, with VerifyFailed, the
error of a signature that does not verify. Generation 0 is unchanged.
The dispatcher moves to its own directory, `util/ecdsa/verify_hash_signature`,
with one module per generation (`v0`, `v1`), as the versioning convention
asks.
Tests build the header twin with `uncompressed_header_twin` and run it beside
the high-S twin through the dispatcher, the dpp paths and the five drive-abci
paths: accepted at protocol version 14, refused at the latest.
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The previous commit (04ddb77) carries only the move of `util/ecdsa.rs` to
`util/ecdsa/mod.rs`: its other paths were left unstaged by mistake. This
commit holds the change its message describes:
- generation 1 of `verify_hash_signature` (protocol version 15 only) refuses
a compact signature whose header does not name a compressed key, beside the
existing low-S check, with VerifyFailed; generation 0 is unchanged;
- the dispatcher lives in `util/ecdsa/verify_hash_signature` with one module
per generation (`v0`, `v1`);
- `uncompressed_header_twin` and the header-twin cases in the dispatcher, dpp
path and drive-abci path tests;
- the doc comments and the protocol version 15 note (41) name both rules.
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Re-review — Final validation — Phase 1 + Phase 2
At head 953ad27, generation 1 now rejects uncompressed-header twins alongside high-S twins, with explicit generation modules and regression coverage through the affected validation paths. The complete diff preserves historical verification and error mappings, and no remaining in-scope defects were identified. This was a static review: current CI reports successful Rust, WASM, JS, Swift, and Kotlin checks, with PastaClaw review and PR Hygiene still pending; no local builds or tests were run.
Triage: critical by gpt-6.1-sol (effort low) — The change intricately alters consensus-critical signature acceptance across identity, address-witness, and asset-lock validation paths, notably in util/ecdsa/verify_hash_signature/v1/mod.rs and PlatformAddress::verify_bytes_against_witness, with protocol-version dispatch preserving historical behavior.
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These are valid observations, but they are outside this PR's scope and should be handled in separate issues or author/maintainer-requested PRs rather than blocking this review.
Bind compact-signature metadata on full-public-key verification paths — The existing full-public-key identity verifier and P2SH witness verifier discard compact-signature recovery metadata before verifying R/S. Changing an accepted header therefore preserves authentication while changing the serialized transition hash, which can disrupt hash-based confirmation tracking. This behavior exists on the base revision and remains outside the recovery-based acceptance rule implemented here.
Follow-up: Create a separate protocol-versioned follow-up PR to bind compact-signature compression and recovery metadata to the verified public key, preserving historical replay and adding identity-signature and P2SH header-mutation regression tests.
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Conflicts in packages/rs-platform-version/src/version/v15.rs, with #4657
(delete and erase lifecycle for keep-history documents):
- imports: this branch's STATE_TRANSITION_METHOD_VERSIONS_V3 and the base's
STATE_TRANSITION_SERIALIZATION_VERSIONS_V4 are both kept;
- both sides added a note 41 to the PLATFORM_V15 doc comment. The base's
note (retained-history lifecycle) keeps 41; the signature note becomes
42, with its reference on the state_transition_method_versions line.
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Conflict in packages/rs-platform-version/src/version/v15.rs: both sides
added a note 42 to the PLATFORM_V15 doc comment. The base's note (a
contract's patterns are bounded, #5879) keeps 42; the signature note
becomes 43, with its reference on the state_transition_method_versions
line.
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Re-review — Final validation — Phase 1 + Phase 2
The protocol-15 recovery-signature hardening is correctly versioned and consistently propagated through identity, witness, and asset-lock validation paths, while protocol versions 1–14 retain the legacy verifier. One non-blocking release-metadata gap remains: the public DPP API changes are not documented in CHANGELOG.md. CI has no failed code checks in the supplied snapshot; Rust workspace tests and the JS build are still pending.
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New non-blocking observations on code unchanged since the last full review. No inline threads are opened for them and later reviews do not repeat them: fix forward or track separately if they are worth it.
🟡 Suggestion: Document the breaking dpp API changes in the changelog packages/rs-dpp/src/address_funds/platform_address.rs:483-488
This change adds platform_version to the public PlatformAddress::verify_bytes_against_witness API, changes StateTransitionWitnessValidation::validate_witnesses to return a nested Result, and adds a platform-version parameter to identity-signature verification. These are source-breaking changes for external Rust consumers, but the reviewed range does not update the existing CHANGELOG.md Unreleased section. Document the migration, including that callers must propagate the active protocol version rather than substitute PlatformVersion::latest() in consensus code.
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Triage: critical by gpt-6.1-sol (effort low) — This is a large cross-cutting consensus change that modifies cryptographic signature validation and key-recovery behavior across identity, address-funds, and asset-lock execution paths, including protocol-version dispatch.
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These are valid observations, but they are outside this PR's scope and should be handled in separate issues or author/maintainer-requested PRs rather than blocking this review.
Canonicalize compact headers on full-key ECDSA paths — Full-public-key identity verification and P2SH multisig verification still discard the compact signature's compression flag before checking R/S. Rewriting a valid compressed header from 31 + recovery_id to 27 + recovery_id can therefore preserve verification while changing the serialized transition hash. This behavior predates the reviewed change and is outside its recovery/HASH160 scope, but it should be addressed because it leaves the same pending-transition hash-substitution risk on those paths.
Follow-up: Create a separate protocol-versioned hardening PR that enforces canonical compressed recovery headers for full-public-key identity signatures and P2SH multisig witnesses, with replay tests for protocol 14 and rejection tests for protocol 15.
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Basic explanation
What this does. From protocol version 15, wherever Platform checks an ECDSA signature by recovering the signer's key, it accepts only the form a signer produces: S in the lower half of the curve order ("low-S") and a header byte that names a compressed key. Protocol version 14 and earlier execute exactly as before.
Value. Today anyone who sees a pending transition signed this way can rewrite the signature into a second valid form without the signer's key, in two ways: replace S with
n - Sand flip the recovery id's parity (the "high-S" twin), or rewrite the header byte from31 + idto27 + id(the "uncompressed header" twin). Either twin recovers the same key, is accepted, and has a different transition hash, so a wallet or app waiting on the hash it broadcast never sees its result. Nonces, revisions and single-use asset locks already stop the transition from running twice; this refuses both twins on these paths.Risks. This is a consensus change, gated on the unreleased protocol version 15 only. A signer that produced high-S signatures, or that wrote the header of an uncompressed key (
27 + id), would be refused from version 15.dashcore::signer::signalways produces low-S under the compressed key's header (31 + id), as does every signer in this repository, so none of them is affected; an external signer that does either would be. Each path keeps the error and the unpaid class it has today for a signature that does not verify, so no payer changes.This supersedes #5670, which carried the low-S part of this fix but was stacked on #5637 (a rust-dashcore bump that was closed without merging). The design is #5670's, by @Claudius-Maginificent on behalf of @lklimek; this PR ports it directly onto
v5.1-dev. The header rule was added here after review.Issue being fixed or feature implemented
Paths that verify a signature against a full public key (
ECDSA_SECP256K1identity keys, proofs of possession, P2SH multisig) already refuse high-S. Paths that recover the key and compare its HASH160 accept it, and accept either header form because the recovered key is always hashed compressed:ECDSA_HASH160key, masternode votes included (the VOTING key is HASH160)verify_ecdsa_hash_160_signature_by_public_key_hash, reached fromverify_identity_signed_signaturev0 and v1InvalidStateTransitionSignatureErrorPlatformAddress::verify_bytes_against_witness,validate_witnesses; drive-abciprocessor/traits/address_witnesses.rsInvalidStateTransitionSignatureErroridentity_create/state/v0,identity_top_up/transform_into_action/v0,address_funding_from_asset_lock/transform_into_action/v0,shield_from_asset_lock/transform_into_action/v1BasicECDSAErrorBefore and after
An identity create funded by an asset lock, signed with the lock's one-time key.
signatureis what the wallet made; the two twins are what a third party derives from it with no key.Before (protocol version 14, and
v5.1-devat protocol version 15 until this PR), for either twin:After (protocol version 15), for either twin:
Protocol version 14 still returns
SuccessfulExecutionfor each twin, so committed blocks replay with the same results.What was done?
One switch, so every path activates together:
DPPStateTransitionMethodVersions::verify_hash_signature: 0 inSTATE_TRANSITION_METHOD_VERSIONS_V1andV2. The newSTATE_TRANSITION_METHOD_VERSIONS_V3(V2 withverify_hash_signature: 1) is selected only byPLATFORM_V15; see note 43 inv15.rs. Protocol version 15 still selected protocol version 14'sV2table, so this is a new table and not an amendment.dpp::util::ecdsa::verify_hash_signature(hash, signature, pubkey_hash, platform_version), a dispatcher in its own directory under theutil::ecdsamodulev5.1-devalready has, with one module per generation:v0/mod.rs) isdashcore::signer::verify_hash_signatureand nothing else;v1/mod.rs) runs the same check first, so a malformed or wrong-key signature keeps the library's error, and then refuses a header that does not name a compressed key (outside 31 to 34) and a signature that is notEcdsaSignature::is_low_s(), each asEcdsaError::VerifyFailed;ProtocolError::UnknownVersionMismatch.signer::verify_hash_signaturelisted above now goes through that dispatcher.PlatformAddress::verify_bytes_against_witnessandStateTransitionWitnessValidation::validate_witnessestakeplatform_versionas the last parameter, andvalidate_witnessesreturnsResult. OnlyUnknownVersionMismatchpropagates as an internal error. Every other error, including P2SH's, maps to the consensus error as before.The rust-dashcore pin is not changed. The checks use
sign_message::from_slice(..)withis_compressed()andsignature()?.is_low_s(), which the pinned revision has. Nothing is taken from #5637.Recovery-based code left as it is, on purpose:
shield_from_asset_lock/transform_into_action/v0: selected by protocol versions 13 and earlier only, where the switch is 0 anyway. It keeps its directsigner::verify_hash_signaturecall so the frozen module stays byte-identical.StateTransition::sign_with_core_signer(dpp): client-side signing, it verifies nothing. It does not normalize S from an external Core signer; signers built on libsecp256k1 produce low-S. A possible follow-up.rs-platform-wallet(sign_message, masternode withdrawal),rs-sdk-cxx(signer.rs) andrs-platform-encryption(recover_signerof a private document envelope): none is reached bydpp,driveordrive-abcivalidation.address_funding_from_asset_lock ... test_high_s_signature_rejectedandaddress_funds_transfer ... test_signature_with_high_s_valuecorrupt S instead of building a real twin, so they do not test malleability. They are left untouched; the new tests build the twin properly.In-place changes to shipped generations
identity_create/state/v0(transform_into_action_v0),identity_top_up/transform_into_action/v0,address_funding_from_asset_lock/transform_into_action/v0signer::verify_hash_signature(h, s, pkh)becomesverify_hash_signature(h, s, pkh, platform_version)?. At protocol versions 14 and earlier every table holdsverify_hash_signature0, which returnsOk(signer::verify_hash_signature(h, s, pkh)): the same call, with the sameErrmapped to the sameBasicECDSAError. The outer?fires only onUnknownVersionMismatch, which no protocol version selects.shield_from_asset_lock/transform_into_action/v1verify_identity_signed_signaturev0 (protocol versions 13 and earlier) and v1 (14 and 15)platform_versionis threaded through. The ECDSA_HASH160 arm calls the dispatcher, which issigner::verify_hash_signatureat protocol versions 14 and earlier, with the sameInvalidStateTransitionSignatureErrormapping. The BLS and SECP256K1 arms are untouched.validate_address_witnessesv0, dppvalidate_witnessesandverify_bytes_against_witnessErr(UnknownVersionMismatch) => return Errarm is unreachable at protocol versions 14 and earlier, because that variant comes only from the dispatcher and every table holds a known version. Every otherErrmaps toInvalidStateTransitionSignatureErrorexactly as before. P2SH branches and fee operations are untouched.Each edited generation has a test at protocol version 14 showing both twins still accepted there.
How Has This Been Tested?
New tests:
util::ecdsa::verify_hash_signature(the dispatcher):31 + idto27 + id, R and S untouched) is accepted at protocol versions 1, 13 and 14 and refused at latest, also when combined with the high-S twin;should_refuse_an_ecdsa_hash160_signature_twin_from_protocol_version_15(a credit transfer and a masternode vote) andshould_refuse_a_p2pkh_witness_twin_from_protocol_version_15, each with both twins.process_raw_state_transitionsat protocol version 14 and at latest, one test each for identity create, identity top-up, address funding from asset lock, shield from asset lock (should_refuse_an_asset_lock_signature_twin_from_protocol_version_15, the shield with a really proved bundle so an accepted signature executes) and the address-funds-transfer P2PKH witness (should_refuse_a_p2pkh_witness_twin_from_protocol_version_15): protocol version 14 accepts each twin; latest refuses each withUnpaidConsensusError, leaves the asset lock unused, and then accepts the original. Plusshould_return_an_internal_error_for_an_unknown_hash_signature_version.dpp::tests::utils::high_s_twin(S becomesn - Sand the recovery id's parity is flipped) anduncompressed_header_twin(the header loses 4).Each new test fails without its change:
signer::verify_hash_signature(dispatcher and tables kept), all seven path tests failed at the "latest refuses the twin" assertion;STATE_TRANSITION_METHOD_VERSIONS_V3set back toverify_hash_signature: 0, the dispatcher's latest-version test failed;should_refuse_the_uncompressed_header_twin_at_the_latest_protocol_version,should_accept_a_single_header_at_the_latest_protocol_versionand all seven path tests failed.Run locally on the final tree (targeted checks only, no full suites):
cargo fmt --all(then-- --check)cargo clippy -p platform-version -p dpp -p drive-abci --all-features --all-targets -- -D warningscargo test -p dpp --all-features --lib -- util::ecdsa state_transition::tests:: platform_address signing_testscargo test -p dpp --all-features --test ecdsa_compatibilityRUST_MIN_STACK=4194304 cargo test -p drive-abci --lib -- address_witnesses state_transitions::identity_create:: state_transitions::identity_top_up:: address_funding_from_asset_lock shield_from_asset_lock:: address_funds_transfer::cargo check -p dppandcargo check -p dpp --no-default-featurescargo check -p dash-sdk --tests(one test caller ofverify_bytes_against_witnessupdated) passed on the first commit and was not re-run after the header rule, which touches nothing in that crate.Not run locally: the full workspace suites and the JS, WASM and mobile builds; CI covers them.
Breaking Changes
Consensus, from protocol version 15: a high-S ECDSA signature, and one whose header names an uncompressed key, are refused on the key-recovery paths listed above. Protocol version 14 and earlier are unchanged.
dppAPI:PlatformAddress::verify_bytes_against_witnessandStateTransitionWitnessValidation::validate_witnessestakeplatform_versionas a new last parameter, andvalidate_witnessesreturnsResult<WitnessValidationResult, ProtocolError>.Checklist:
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