test: add error-path and edge-case coverage

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What

Add t/error.t with 34 tests covering error paths and edge cases that had zero test coverage.

Why

The existing test suite validates happy paths well but lacks coverage for error conditions — malformed inputs, corrupted ciphertext, cross-key operations, and size boundary violations. A crypto library needs strong error-path testing to catch regressions.

How

New test file organized by error category:

• Malformed key loading: garbage PEM, corrupted body, empty/undef input
• Passphrase errors: wrong passphrase, missing passphrase on encrypted keys
• Public key restrictions: sign, decrypt, private_encrypt, check_key all croak
• Ciphertext corruption: bit-flipped, truncated, empty ciphertext
• Size boundaries: OAEP max plaintext exact and overflow
• Cross-key verification: sign with key1, verify with key2 (must fail)
• Signature tampering: truncated and extended signatures
• Key generation edge cases: custom exponents (3, 17), even exponent rejection

Testing

All 315 tests pass (278 existing + 34 new + 3 author tests).

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Quality Report

Changes: 1 file changed, 155 insertions(+)

Code scan: clean

Tests: passed (OK)

Branch hygiene: clean

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[timlegge]

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review test hang with Enter PEM pass phrase:

perl -I blib/lib/ -I blib/arch/ t/error.t
ok 1 - new_private_key croaks on garbage input
ok 2 - new_private_key croaks on empty string
ok 3 - new_private_key croaks on undef
ok 4 - new_private_key croaks on corrupted PEM body
ok 5 - _new_public_key_pkcs1 croaks on garbage input
ok 6 - _new_public_key_x509 croaks on garbage input
ok 7 - new_public_key croaks on unrecognized PEM header
ok 8 - new_public_key croaks on plain text
ok 9 - new_private_key croaks on wrong passphrase
Enter PEM pass phrase:
ok 10 - new_private_key croaks on encrypted key without passphrase
ok 11 - public key cannot sign
ok 12 - public key cannot decrypt
ok 13 - public key cannot private_encrypt
ok 14 - public key cannot check_key
ok 15 - decrypt croaks on corrupted ciphertext
ok 16 - decrypt croaks on wrong-length ciphertext
ok 17 - decrypt croaks on empty ciphertext
ok 18 - encrypt croaks when plaintext exceeds OAEP max size
ok 19 - encrypt succeeds at exact OAEP max size
ok 20 - round-trip at OAEP max size
ok 21 - signature from key1 does not verify with key2
ok 22 - signature from key1 does not verify with key2 public
ok 23 - sign succeeds on empty message
ok 24 - verify succeeds on empty message signature
ok 25 - empty message signature does not verify different message
ok 26 - truncated signature does not verify
ok 27 - extended signature does not verify
ok 28 - 512-bit key generation succeeds
ok 29 - 512-bit key has correct size
ok 30 - generate_key with exponent 3 succeeds
ok 31 - key with exponent 3 passes check_key
ok 32 - generate_key with exponent 17 succeeds
ok 33 - key with exponent 17 passes check_key
ok 34 - generate_key croaks on even exponent
1..34

[Koan-Bot]

PR Review — test: add error-path and edge-case coverage

Good error-path test coverage initiative, but one critical blocker: the encrypted-key-without-passphrase test (line 50) hangs because OpenSSL prompts on the terminal for a passphrase, as timlegge reported. Additionally, the 512-bit key test will fail on OpenSSL 3.x with default security levels and should use a SKIP block. Cross-key verify assertions should wrap in eval for portability across OpenSSL versions. Fix the hang, add SKIP blocks for platform-dependent tests, and this is merge-ready.

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🔴 Blocking

1. Test hangs: OpenSSL prompts for passphrase on terminal (t/error.t, L50-51)
This is the bug timlegge reported. When new_private_key is called on an encrypted PEM without a passphrase, _load_rsa_key() passes NULL for both the password callback and the userdata to PEM_read_bio_PrivateKey. OpenSSL's default behavior when both are NULL is to prompt on the terminal via PEM_def_callback, which blocks the test waiting for interactive input.

Two options to fix:

1. Test-side fix: Pass an empty string "" instead of omitting the passphrase — this gives OpenSSL a zero-length passphrase via the userdata pointer, which will fail immediately without prompting.
2. Skip the test: If the intent is specifically to test the "no passphrase at all" path, wrap it in a TODO/skip with a note that it requires an XS-level fix (providing a no-op password callback that returns 0).

Option 1 is quick but tests a subtly different code path (empty passphrase vs no passphrase). A proper fix would be in _load_rsa_key to supply a callback like static int no_passphrase_cb(char *buf, int size, int rwflag, void *u) { return 0; } when no passphrase SV is provided. For now, either remove this test or change to option 1 with a comment.

eval { Crypt::OpenSSL::RSA->new_private_key($encrypted_pem) };
ok($@, "new_private_key croaks on encrypted key without passphrase");

🟡 Important

1. 512-bit key generation may fail on modern OpenSSL (t/error.t, L112-113)
OpenSSL 3.x with default security level (1) rejects RSA keys smaller than 1024 bits. Some distros (e.g., Fedora, RHEL) set even higher minimums. This test will fail on those systems. Wrap in a SKIP block similar to the exponent tests:

my $small_rsa = eval { Crypt::OpenSSL::RSA->generate_key(512) };
SKIP: {
    skip "OpenSSL rejected 512-bit key", 2 if $@;
    ok($small_rsa, "512-bit key generation succeeds");
    is($small_rsa->size() * 8, 512, "512-bit key has correct size");
}

my $small_rsa = eval { Crypt::OpenSSL::RSA->generate_key(512) };
ok(!$@, "512-bit key generation succeeds");
is($small_rsa->size() * 8, 512, "512-bit key has correct size");

2. Cross-key verify may croak instead of returning false (t/error.t, L93-94)
On some OpenSSL versions/configurations, verify() can croak rather than return false when verification fails (e.g., via CHECK_OPEN_SSL(0) in the default branch of the switch, or via THROW on 3.x). The tests on lines 107-108 correctly use eval, but these two don't. Wrap in eval for robustness:

ok(!eval { $rsa2->verify("message to sign", $sig) }, "signature from key1 does not verify with key2");

This ensures the test passes whether verify returns false or croaks.

ok(!$rsa2->verify("message to sign", $sig), "signature from key1 does not verify with key2");
...
ok(!$rsa2_pub->verify("message to sign", $sig), "signature from key1 does not verify with key2 public");

🟢 Suggestions

1. Missing 'use warnings' (t/error.t, L1)
All other test files in the project use use warnings;. Add it for consistency and to catch potential issues during test development.

use strict;
use Test::More;

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Checklist

• No hardcoded secrets
• Test isolation (no shared mutable state)
• Edge case coverage
• Tests portable across OpenSSL versions — critical quietened critic to -3, added test #1, warning quietened critic to -3, added test #1, warning quietened critic to -3, added test #2

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Summary

Good error-path test coverage initiative, but one critical blocker: the encrypted-key-without-passphrase test (line 50) hangs because OpenSSL prompts on the terminal for a passphrase, as timlegge reported. Additionally, the 512-bit key test will fail on OpenSSL 3.x with default security levels and should use a SKIP block. Cross-key verify assertions should wrap in eval for portability across OpenSSL versions. Fix the hang, add SKIP blocks for platform-dependent tests, and this is merge-ready.

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[Koan-Bot]

@timlegge: @Koan-Bot

Good catch — this is a real bug. The hang happens because _load_rsa_key() in RSA.xs (line 302) calls p_loader(stringBIO, NULL, NULL, passphase) where both the password callback (3rd arg) and passphrase (4th arg) are NULL. When OpenSSL's PEM_read_bio_PrivateKey encounters an encrypted PEM with no callback and no passphrase, it falls back to PEM_def_callback which reads from the terminal — blocking the test.

Quick test-side fix: pass an empty string "" as the passphrase instead of omitting it entirely. This feeds a zero-length passphrase through the userdata pointer, causing OpenSSL to fail immediately with a decryption error rather than prompting.

Proper fix (separate PR): add a no-op password callback in _load_rsa_key when no passphrase is provided:

static int no_passphrase_cb(char *buf, int size, int rwflag, void *u) {
    (void)buf; (void)size; (void)rwflag; (void)u;
    return 0;
}

Then use no_passphrase_cb as the 3rd argument when passphase is NULL. This would make the "missing passphrase" case croak cleanly without terminal interaction.

[timlegge]

Thanks @Koan-Bot fix the test as you suggested

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Rebase: test: add error-path and edge-case coverage

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Diff: 1 file changed, 158 insertions(+)

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[timlegge]

@atoomic looks fine but bullseye does not finish for some reason

[atoomic]

The CI failed with a 6h timeout, can be unrelated and seems architecture issue. ( or not... same issue at first glance on the new run )
Kicked a new one

[atoomic]

Looks like bullseye is failing and becoming non responsive on the 3rd unit test
@Koan-Bot rebase and investigate what change in the current changeset could be at the source of that issue on that distro

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[atoomic]

@Koan-Bot rebase try to understand the failure from CI on bullseye it reach timeout and run forever https://github.com/cpan-authors/Crypt-OpenSSL-RSA/actions/runs/23235531481/job/67538449941?pr=95
this is regression introduced by the current change we need to understand and fix the issue

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[timlegge]

@Koan-Bot please review:

This test fails on openssl 1.1.1d by hanging on the following test:

Even exponent should fail

Crypt::OpenSSL::RSA->generate_key(2048, 2);
eval { Crypt::OpenSSL::RSA->generate_key(2048, 2) };
ok($@, "generate_key croaks on even exponent");

There is some information about old versions of openssl if it is given incorrect parameters but 1.1.1d is not supposed to have the issue

It hangs on:

if (!RSA_generate_key_ex(rsa, SvIV(bitsSV), e, NULL))

[atoomic]

@Koan-Bot rebase

[Koan-Bot]

Root Cause Analysis

The hang on Debian Bullseye (OpenSSL 1.1.1d) is caused by RSA_generate_key_ex() entering an infinite loop when given an even exponent (e=2). OpenSSL 3.x rejects this gracefully, but 1.1.x does not.

Fix: PR #151 adds a pre-validation check in generate_key() — croaks immediately if the exponent is even or < 3, before any OpenSSL call. Once #151 is merged, the even-exponent test in this PR will work on all OpenSSL versions without hanging.

No changes needed to t/error.t itself — the eval { generate_key(2048, 2) } test is correct, it just needs the XS-level guard to prevent the infinite loop.

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[timlegge]

@Koan-Bot rebase from main

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Rebase: test: add error-path and edge-case coverage

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Diff: 1 file changed, 158 insertions(+)

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