multiformats / multiformats/js-multiformats
add length requirements to hash functions
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- TypeScript
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Description
For security purposes we should allow hash implementations to come with hash size requirements, either a single integer or a range tuple. This would be used in the validate function and throw if a hash was not of a secure length.
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Research direction
Start by locating the validate function and the existing hash implementations in the TypeScript source. Determine how a single length or range tuple should be represented, then verify that validation accepts compliant hashes and rejects hashes outside the required secure length.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- api
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100