liftedinit / liftedinit/many-rs
Current hash scheme has security vulnerability
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breaking change
security
- Dominant language
- Rust
- Stars
- 6
- Forks
- 11
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Description
Description: many-rs needs a migration to fix the security issue patched with this change on the nomic fork: https://github.com/nomic-io/merk/commit/b555dff70994f0d556843bdcd9483accf73968d4 . Second pre-image attack.
- [ ] Should fix the security vulnerability with the above patch.
- [ ] Should be demoed.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by comparing the linked nomic-io/merk commit b555dff70994f0d556843bdcd9483accf73968d4 with many-rs's current hash scheme and identify the migration needed for the second pre-image vulnerability. Done means the security issue is fixed with the corresponding migration and the change is demonstrated.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- cryptography, security
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100