fix: eth_sign's warning and the README say what it signs (closes #409)
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eth_sign is signed as an EIP-191 personal message over its data, which is
what the Ethereum JSON-RPC specification defines it to return. Its warning
on the signature prompt said the site was asking to sign a raw hash that
could drain funds, and the README said the same; neither was true. The
warning now says the site used the older eth_sign method and that the data
will be signed as a personal message, and the README's SignApproval section
says so too. Tests pin that the background reads eth_sign address first and
data second, and that the sign screen answers it with the personal message
signature over the data.

Model: opus-5-5
This commit was merged in pull request #545.
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@@ -1606,6 +1606,55 @@ describe("what the approval is verified against", () => {
});
});
// eth_sign names the address first and the data second, the reverse of
// personal_sign, and is answered as the JSON-RPC specification defines it:
// with an EIP-191 personal message signature over the data, the same
// signature personal_sign returns
// (https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/AutistMask/issues/409). The signature below is
// made by the test; that the sign screen makes the same one is tested in
// tests/ethSign.test.js.
describe("eth_sign", () => {
test("is read address first, and returns a personal message signature over the data", async () => {
const bg = loadBackground();
const page = bg.send(
{
type: "AUTISTMASK_RPC",
method: "eth_sign",
params: [signer.address, MESSAGE],
},
{ origin: ORIGIN },
);
await settle();
const id = approvalIdIn(bg.created.map((c) => c.url));
const details = bg.send(
{ type: "AUTISTMASK_GET_APPROVAL", id },
{ url: bg.fromPopup.url },
);
const { signParams } = details.sendResponse.mock.calls[0][0];
expect(signParams).toMatchObject({
method: "eth_sign",
message: MESSAGE,
from: signer.address,
});
expect(signParams.dangerWarning).toBe(
"This site used the older eth_sign method. " +
"The data will be signed as a personal message.",
);
const signature = await signer.signMessage(
Buffer.from(MESSAGE.slice(2), "hex"),
);
bg.send(
{ type: "AUTISTMASK_SIGN_RESPONSE", id, approved: true, signature },
{ url: bg.fromPopup.url },
);
await settle();
expect(page.sendResponse).toHaveBeenCalledWith({ result: signature });
});
});
// The interlock must not cost the retry the approval exists to allow.
describe("the interlock releases a failed attempt", () => {
test("a retryable failure before the broadcast leaves the approval usable", async () => {