test: cover spec-required Signature elements and fail-closed signing errors - #599
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`idAttribute` and `implicitTransforms` were documented and never executed. Tests show that signing reuses an id already held in the named attribute, that verification resolves a Reference through it and fails without it, and that it widens the duplicate-id wrapping check. A signer that applied exclusive C14N without declaring it verifies only when `implicitTransforms` names it. The README example listed Canonical XML 1.0 as the implicit transform, which xml-crypto already applies wherever the transforms end without a canonicalization, so the example changed nothing. It now uses exclusive C14N, with a note on where Canonical XML 1.0 is applied. The `idAttribute` entry said it replaced the default id attributes; it adds one ahead of them. "signer appends signature to a non-existing reference node" passed on `Missing canonicalizationAlgorithm`. It now configures signing fully and asserts the message it is named for. Error contracts that keep signing from inheriting a default and keep verification failing closed: - addReference with no digestAlgorithm, or no or empty transforms - computeSignature with no signatureAlgorithm - loadSignature on a Signature missing a Reference, CanonicalizationMethod, DigestMethod or its Algorithm, DigestValue or its value, or carrying two DigestValues - checkSignature's own Reference guard, and checkSignature with no signature loaded Refs node-saml#573 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 2 included reviews per hour; 0 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe changes clarify implicit canonicalization behavior and restore the inclusive canonicalization URI in the README. Tests cover duplicate IDs, malformed signatures, required signing options, and remove one obsolete signature-location test. ChangesSignature validation
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A custom transform that returns octets is not canonicalized afterwards, so an implicit Canonical XML 1.0 can matter there; keep it in the list to try. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…guarantee Drop the tests that pinned documented or incidental behavior: idAttribute signing and resolution, implicitTransforms, the location.reference message, addReference's transforms guard (ReferenceType has Transforms minOccurs=0 and node-saml#542 removes it for 7.0), an empty DigestValue (base64Binary allows it), and the two checkSignature guards whose removal still fails closed. The location.reference test returns to its master form. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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🟡 Minor · Do not catch the assertion failure. · test/signature-unit-tests.spec.ts:1179-1182
1179-1182: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winDo not catch the assertion failure.
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/root/foobar,xpath.select1finds no node, socomputeSignaturethrowserr2. If that guard regresses and the call returns,expect.fail()throws an assertion error that the catch block accepts. The test then passes without detecting the regression.The proposed
.to.throw()assertion detects a normal return but removes the existing non-TypeErrorrequirement. Assert both conditions:Proposed fix
- try { - sig.computeSignature(xml, { + expect(() => + sig.computeSignature(xml, { location: { reference: "/root/foobar", action: "append", }, - }); - expect.fail("Expected an error to be thrown"); - } catch (err) { - expect(err).not.to.be.an.instanceof(TypeError); - } + }), + ) + .to.throw() + .and.not.to.throw(TypeError);🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@test/signature-unit-tests.spec.ts`:
- Around line 1179-1182: Update the error assertion around computeSignature so
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It threw 'Missing canonicalizationAlgorithm' before computeSignature looked up location.reference, and asserted only that the error was not a TypeError. node-saml#583 decides what an invalid location.reference reports in 7.0. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Refs #573
Tests and README only; no runtime change.
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These tests cover only behavior the XMLDSig schema or a security guarantee requires. Tests for documented but non-spec behavior (
idAttributesigning and resolution,implicitTransforms) are deferred to 7.0.signer appends signature to a non-existing reference nodeis removed. It threwMissing canonicalizationAlgorithmbeforecomputeSignaturelooked uplocation.reference, and it asserted only that the error was not aTypeError. #583 decides in 7.0 what an invalidlocation.referencereports.loadSignaturerejects aSignaturewith noReference, noCanonicalizationMethod, aReferencemissingDigestMethodorDigestValue, aDigestMethodwithoutAlgorithm, or twoDigestValuesSignedInfoTyperequiresCanonicalizationMethodand at least oneReference;ReferenceTyperequires exactly oneDigestMethodand oneDigestValue;Algorithmisuse="required"addReferencewithoutdigestAlgorithmthrowsdigestAlgorithm is requiredcomputeSignaturewithoutsignatureAlgorithmthrowssignatureAlgorithm is requiredidAttribute: "AssertionID", a forged<book Id="b1">beside the signed<book AssertionID="b1">throws the signature-wrapping errorId/ID/idSome related cases are already covered on
masterbytest/signed-references-tests.spec.tsfrom #580: an HMACSignatureMethodwhile HMAC is off, a missingSignatureMethodon verification, and no key. This PR does not repeat those.Evidence the tests bite
src/signed-xml.tsDigestValueguardtwo DigestValuesdigestAlgorithmguard inaddReferenceno digestAlgorithmsignatureAlgorithmto RSA-SHA1without a signatureAlgorithmidAttributewrapping testREADME
idAttributeentry said its default wasId,IDorid. It adds a name that is checked before those three.What #573 still asks for
idAttributeandimplicitTransformswork.location.reference, oncelocation.referenceguard reports the wrong error, and the root-node case never reaches it #583 settles its error.implicitTransformsandidAttributehave no tests, error contracts are unverified, and one test passes on the wrong error #573 suggests measuring again after feat!: give asynchronous work its own entry points #571.These are left for 7.0.
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