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2.2.0 - 2022-01-24

Added

  • Add support for BLAKE3 through third-party package blake3, which are bindings to the homonym Rust package (ported by one of the algorithm's author).

Changed

  • Several docs content improvements.
  • Marginal performance improvement by changing frozen dataclasses for named tuples.

2.1.0 - 2021-12-28

Changed

  • Unhardcode default compression level, which was hardcoded to 6. That value was set for Zlib and remain there since the old times. Make the default None so we can let the compressor set the right value.

2.0.0 - 2021-06-11

Added

  • Allow changing encoder in every signer: previously only Blake2SerializerSigner accepted encoders other than b64, yet not totally: the signature was always b64 URL safe encoded. This required a slight refactor splitting the signers' module into bases and signers.
  • Add new base32 encoder.
  • Add check to ensure that the separator does not belong to the encoder alphabet.
  • Add new hex (base16) encoder.
  • Add check to ensure that the separator and compressor flag are ASCII characters to prevent encoding errors when converting from bytes to string.
  • Add new gzip compressor.
  • Add new null serializer: a serializer that doesn't actually serialize. It can be useful when you need to manage bytes or strings, but you want to compress too, therefore being able to use the Blake2SerializerSigner for this.
  • Add check to ensure that the separator and compressor flag are not empty.
  • Add check to ensure that the encoder alphabet is ASCII and not empty.
  • Add signature timestamp to ExpiredSignatureError exception in new timestamp parameter as an aware datetime object.
  • Add new dump/load interface in Blake2SerializerSigner for file-like objects.
  • Add argument to Blake2SerializerSigner.dumps() to pass keyword arguments to the serializer.
  • Add documentation with mkdocs, and a nice title with logo (many thanks to Erus).
  • Add new methods to obtain data and signature separately for all signers: sign_parts/unsign_parts and dumps_parts/loads_parts.
  • Create a security scanning job using Trivy.
  • Add a job to test support for PyPy 3.7.
  • Add a job to test support for Stackless Python 3.7.

Changed

  • Split classes between mixins and interfaces; also serializers, compressors and encoders, which are implementations of interfaces. This smooths the way to have several implementors and to actually be able to change the entire encoding in the future (currently the signature is always b64 URL safe encoded even if the encoder is changed in Blake2SerializerSigner).
  • Set default digest size for all signers to 16 bytes, so the output and functioning is more homogeneous.
  • Make compression flag and ratio an instance attribute.
  • Make separator an instance attribute.
  • Change type annotations for secret, personalisation, separator and compression_flag to show support for bytes and string as it has always been supported.
  • Improve force_bytes performance by not casting bytes to bytes, and change its signature to accept any.
  • Rename use_compression to compress because it's shorter and easier to write, and more tab-autocompletion friendly.
  • Recover cause in all exceptions for easier debugging. This was not done before on purpose to hide information in case a misconfiguration in the implementor application would expose said information to the public, but the benefits of having a cause traceback to the original exception are too many to not have it.
  • Split tests by module or class to avoid having a giant single file with all the tests in it.
  • Marginally improve performance, around ~4% less time, to sign and unsign by removing unneeded calls to force_bytes when encoding/decoding.

Security

  • Prevent timestamped signatures "from the future" to pass as correct by checking the signature age to be bigger than 0.
  • Create a fuzzing script using pythonfuzz to uncover unexpected bugs.
  • Fix a potential vulnerability when the NullSerializer was used, and the user could sign arbitrary data, then a malicious user could sign a zip bomb that when unsigned could cause at best a controlled DecompressionError exception or at worst a DoS or other unknown result (depends heavily on the compressor used). This scenario is not default and probably very hard to achieve (it can't be produced with the JSONSerializer but it could perhaps be produced by some other custom serializer too), but nevertheless the possibility was there.

1.2.1 - 2021-05-10

Added

  • Add jobs to publish python packages automatically.

Fixed

  • Fix wrong exception being raised in Blake2TimestampSignerBase._decode_timestamp().

1.2.0 - 2021-04-24

Added

  • Add setting to allow deterministic signatures, but keep default of non-deterministic ones.

1.1.0 - 2021-04-15

Added

  • Add new force_compression parameter in Blake2SerializerSigner.dumps() to expose existing capability to force data compression.

Changed

  • Change execution order of steps to publish a package in Contrib, to allow room for fixes after publishing to testpypi.
  • Reworded and fixed some typos in Readme.
  • Change wording in DecodeError and EncodeError to abstract them from base 64 URL safe.
  • Change Blake2TimestampSignerBase._split_timestamp() to decode the timestamp directly. It made some noise that after splitting one needed to decode the timestamp to actually use it.

Security

  • Update dev dependencies, one of which (safety) had a security vulnerability because of a dependency (urllib3).

1.0.0 - 2021-02-26

Added

  • Add a logo and icons for the project (many thanks to NoonSleeper).
  • Add index to readme.
  • Add again flake8-annotations-complexity since it now works in Python 3.9+.

Changed

  • Updated dependencies.
  • Use debian-based images in CI to run tests, preventing package building wreckage and improving run time (there's no need to build given most packages publish a wheel artifact).

0.5.1 - 2020-11-08

Fixed

  • The idea of 66ebeff was to accept the hasher parameter also as string, but the implementation and type hints were wrong. Fixed it and added corresponding tests (mental note: avoid releasing new versions at Saturday midnight).

0.5.0 - 2020-11-07

Removed

  • Remove flake8-annotations-complexity because it is failing in Python 3.9 (there's a bug report already filled for this, and a new release should come soon).

Added

  • Create jobs to test this lib under different Python versions.
  • Add usage examples in classes docstrings.

Changed

  • Renamed enum Hashers_ to HasherChoice and subclass it from string.
  • Update dev dependencies.

Fixed

  • Bring back Python 3.7 compatibility by removing the use of TypedDict which was unneeded.

0.4.0 - 2020-10-11

Added

  • Create new parameter to set compression level in dumps for Blake2SerializerSigner.
  • When compressing check if there's a benefit to it and if not skip it in dumps for Blake2SerializerSigner.

Changed

  • The signature is base64 encoded.
  • The timestamp is base64 encoded.
  • The salt is generated and used as base64 data to avoid needing to decode it when checking the signature.
  • Use a symbol to separate composite signature from timestamp and data.
  • Verify the signature before decoding.
  • Blake2Serializer was renamed to Blake2SerializerSigner because of reasons.
  • Derive key from secret and person in all classes.
  • Force bytes in all inputs.
  • Set minimum digest size of 16 (was 8).
  • Always concatenate personalisation value with the class name to prevent signed data misuse.
  • Rename person parameter to personalisation.
  • Rename key parameter to secret.
  • Some other minor changes regarding public/private API so that the only public methods are sign/unsign and loads/dumps.
  • Refactor exceptions to make them make sense and be more usable.
  • Improve docstrings descriptions and properly document exceptions.
  • Refactor classes into abstracts and mixins so that end users can create their own implementations easily.
  • Change compression flag to a dot.

0.3.0 - 2020-10-05

Added

  • Initial release as a package.

Changed

  • Use compact JSON encoding in Blake2Serializer class.
  • Change Blake2Serializer interface from sign/unsign to dumps/loads.
  • Move compression to dumps and mark it in the stream (this seems to prevent zip bombs).
  • Force inputs as bytes.

0.2.0 - 2020-09-15

Changed

  • Change composition order because it's easier to work with positive slices, and it's kinda a convention to have salt at the beginning rather than at the end (incentive from a Twitter thread).

0.1.2 - 2020-09-14

Added

  • Add basic tests (run with python -m unittest blake2signer or your preferred runner).

Fixed

  • Fix digest and key size check.

0.1.1 - 2020-09-13

Added

  • Derive person in Signer class to allow arbitrarily long strings.

Changed

  • Relicense with MPL 2.0.

0.1.0 - 2020-09-12

Added

  • Initial release as a Gist.
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